Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261445AbVCYGSb (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:18:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261439AbVCYGSQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:18:16 -0500 Received: from arnor.apana.org.au ([203.14.152.115]:49933 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261445AbVCYGO5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:14:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:13:11 +1100 To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Jeff Garzik , David McCullough , cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , James Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) Message-ID: <20050325061311.GA22959@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1111665551.23532.90.camel@uganda> <4242B712.50004@pobox.com> <20050324132342.GD7115@beast> <1111671993.23532.115.camel@uganda> <42432972.5020906@pobox.com> <1111725282.23532.130.camel@uganda> <42439839.7060702@pobox.com> <1111728804.23532.137.camel@uganda> <4243A86D.6000408@pobox.com> <1111731361.20797.5.camel@uganda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1111731361.20797.5.camel@uganda> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Herbert Xu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 29 On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:16:01AM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 00:58 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > If its disabled by default, then you and 2-3 other people will use this > > feature. Not enough justification for a kernel API at that point. > > It is only because there are only couple of HW crypto devices > in the tree, with one crypto framework inclusion there will be > at least redouble. You missed the point. This has nothing to do with the crypto API. Jeff is saying that if this is disabled by default, then only a few users will enable it and therefore use this API. Since we can't afford to enable it by default as hardware RNG may fail which can lead to catastrophic consequences, there is no point for this API at all. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/