Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754904AbcDYQG1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:06:27 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:9880 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751197AbcDYQGZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:06:25 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,533,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="91567141" From: Andi Kleen To: Sandy Harris Cc: LKML , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , Jason Cooper , John Denker , "H. Peter Anvin" , Stephan Mueller Subject: Re: random(4) changes References: Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:06:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Sandy Harris's message of "Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:27:48 -0400") Message-ID: <87twipn05w.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 325 Lines: 12 Sandy Harris writes: There is also the third problem of horrible scalability of /dev/random output on larger systems, for which patches are getting ignored. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/10/716 Ignoring problems does not make them go away. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only