From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263290AbTJUTkt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:40:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263293AbTJUTkt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:40:49 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:32531 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263290AbTJUTkr (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:40:47 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module Date: 21 Oct 2003 19:30:45 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <3F8E552B.3010507@users.sf.net> <200310161245.59939.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1066764645 18695 192.168.12.62 (21 Oct 2003 19:30:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200310161245.59939.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>, Ingo Oeser wrote: | On Thursday 16 October 2003 10:22, Eli Billauer wrote: | > (4) The module is small: 6kB of source code as a standalone module, and | > 2.3 kB of kernel memory. | | That's a price worth as an "default to off" option. We have much more | seldom used stuff in the kernel and maintain it, which is a bigger mess | than this. Yes, and it could be disabled to take no resources, unlike the Athlon pagefault bugfix, which is forced in all kernels instead of just those destined for those which need the fix. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.