Re: user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
08 Apr 2002 16:02:48 -0400


On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 16:56, Jeff Dike wrote:

> Added SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM to the irq registration flags of some drivers. This
> makes apps which read /dev/random work a lot better. Randomness in UML is
> more problematic than on the host, but I chose a set of drivers whose
> interrupts shouldn't be too predictable.

If these drivers truly are sufficient candidates for feeding
/dev/random, perhaps you could pull these bits and submit them to Linus
and Marcelo?

I for one think this is a good idea.

Robert Love

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