From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:47:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:47:16 -0400 Received: from odyssey.netrox.net ([204.253.4.3]:7604 "EHLO t-rex.netrox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:47:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optionally let Net Devices feed Entropy From: Robert Love To: Francois Romieu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010816190255.A17095@se1.cogenit.fr> In-Reply-To: <997936615.921.22.camel@phantasy> <20010816105010.A10595@se1.cogenit.fr> <997973433.684.3.camel@phantasy> <20010816190255.A17095@se1.cogenit.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12.99 (Preview Release) Date: 16 Aug 2001 20:47:48 -0400 Message-Id: <998009276.660.69.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 16 Aug 2001 19:02:55 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Robert Love : > > What is experimental about it? > > The implicit-and-should-be-debated-in-2.5 assumption that the entropy > estimate still makes sense ? then mark the entropy generator experimental if you believe that. its irrelevant here. this is just taking a behavior that is inconsistent (do NICs enable SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM), making it consistent (SA_SAMPLE_NET_RANDOM), and making it configurable. Nothing is experimental. This does not change things; it makes things configurable. -- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net