From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: random(4) changes
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:06:03 -0700
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Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> writes:

There is also the third problem of horrible scalability of /dev/random
output on larger systems, for which patches are getting ignored.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/10/716

Ignoring problems does not make them go away.

-Andi
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