Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 00:07:49 -0500
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers
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On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:22:00PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > Again, I think it's perfectly reasonable to sample from all sorts of
> > sources. All my issues are about the entropy accounting.
> 
> But in that case your patch which removes the call to add_entropy() is
> probably not the right thing, yes?

Note the emphatic "again", because I conceded that in my very first
response to you.

The question is, what is the right thing? Not what we have now.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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