Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262425AbVCXHhO (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:37:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262426AbVCXHhO (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:37:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:18864 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262425AbVCXHhJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:37:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:37:03 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: David McCullough , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) Message-ID: <20050324073703.GA19467@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jan Engelhardt , David McCullough , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 17 On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:18:35AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >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. It shouldn't be a symlink. Something like rngd should read from it and feed it into /dev/random's entropy pool. Dave - 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/