Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263028AbVCXEtS (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:49:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263031AbVCXEtR (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:49:17 -0500 Received: from maxipes.logix.cz ([217.11.251.249]:4305 "EHLO maxipes.logix.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263028AbVCXEtM (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:49:12 -0500 Message-ID: <424246BF.6090108@logix.cz> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:49:03 +1200 From: Michal Ludvig User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David McCullough Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , James Morris , Herbert Xu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) References: <20050315133644.GA25903@beast> <20050324042708.GA2806@beast> <20050324043300.GA2621@havoc.gtf.org> <20050324044621.GC3124@beast> In-Reply-To: <20050324044621.GC3124@beast> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 624 Lines: 17 David McCullough wrote: > Are you talking about /dev/hw_random ? If not then sorry I didn't see it :-( > > On a lot of the small systems I work on, /dev/random is completely > unresponsive, and all the apps use /dev/random, not /dev/hw_random. > > Would you suggest making /dev/random point to /dev/hw_random then ? Or feed the entropy pool from hw_random? Michal Ludvig - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/