Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

hw_random.c already does it using userspace daemons,

which is bad idea for very fast HW - like VIA xstore/xcrypt instructions.

This is incorrect, because it implies that a user would want to use the 'xstore' feature at full speed -- which would dominate the CPU, drastically slowing down the applications that are actually doing work.

As I mentioned in another message, VIA xstore support should be removed from hw_random.c and moved completely to userspace rngd.

	Jeff


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