From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263012AbTJPPKX (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:10:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263069AbTJPPKX (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:10:23 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:12958 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263012AbTJPPKU (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:10:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8EB4CD.8050205@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:10:05 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Billauer CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module References: <3F8E552B.3010507@users.sf.net> <3F8E58A9.20005@cyberone.com.au> <3F8E70E0.7070000@users.sf.net> <3F8E8101.70009@pobox.com> <3F8E8EA8.8030707@users.sf.net> In-Reply-To: <3F8E8EA8.8030707@users.sf.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eli Billauer wrote: > My argument, possibly better formulated, asks the following questions: > > (1) How much good will the existence of an standard /dev/frandom device > do? Is it going to be used? > (2) How much space will it take up in the kernel tarball? > (3) How much disk space will it take after compilation? > (4) How much compilation time will it take up? > (5) How much effort is it going to be to maintain it? [...] > I actually agree that the kernel isn't "the right place" for a random > generator. I simply think that having it there is useful, with a very > low cost. Add up 1000 low-cost items, and you can run a catalog store... but not a kernel. None of those questions 1-5 make much bit of difference: The key question is "right place", and you just agreed w/ me the kernel isn't :) Jeff