Re: [PATCH] Optionally let Net Devices feed Entropy

Alex Bligh - linux-kernel (linux-kernel@alex.org.uk)
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:34:07 +0100

> now, we talked earlier about this patch, Alex -- what are your opinions
> of it? have you tried it?
>
> i know it is not exactly what you want (although i am still open to your
> way, too), but i made it due in no small part to our conversation and
> would like your opinion. i am using it now.

Looks 'obviously correct' to me (famous last words). I can't try it
on the system that is otherwise entropy-short as I don't want to
touch the kernel on that box right now.

As I said to you by private email, I have a slight preference for
a /proc controlled version (just so vendor-distributed precompiled
kernels could work either way, with the vendor-dist rc script
chosing a default option based on the vendor config script) given
coding /proc entries is trivial (see manual patch :-). However, your
patch is many many times better than the status quo IMHO.

--
Alex Bligh
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