Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263071AbVCXHS4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:18:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262422AbVCXHSz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:18:55 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:32955 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263072AbVCXHSo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:18:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:18:35 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: David McCullough cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) In-Reply-To: <20050324044621.GC3124@beast> Message-ID: References: <20050315133644.GA25903@beast> <20050324042708.GA2806@beast> <20050324043300.GA2621@havoc.gtf.org> <20050324044621.GC3124@beast> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 484 Lines: 14 >Would you suggest making /dev/random point to /dev/hw_random then ? No. I for example do not have a hardware RNG, so `modprobe hw_random` fails with No Such Device. Making it a symlink would make it a dangling one. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/