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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:56:29 +0200
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On Wednesday 27 June 2007 18:40:41 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> There *is* a much better way to deal with it, though.  Add the fail always
> RNG device, and always select it by default.  Let the user specifically set
> which RNG he wants, and it now rates as "trusted", which is the only
> fail-proof way to go about it IMHO.

Well, but it changes ABI, which is forbidden.
After a kernel update your system will partially not work anymore.

-- 
Greetings Michael.