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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:06:03AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> 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.

Sorry, too much travel, deadlines and conference this spring.  I
haven't forgot them.

						- Ted