On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Deepak Saxena wrote:
>
> I think moving it to user space will add more complexity for
> the case where the HW unit is shared with an in in-kernel driver.
Moving it to user space is just generally stupid.
Often, the random stuff comes from chipsets, not the CPU itself. Not
user-accessible at all, and even if it were, it would be a bad idea to
have user space do things the kernel does normally ("what northbridge do I
have").
There may be use for a user-level library that handles the native CPU
instructions for high performance, but that in no way negates the reason
why /dev/random and friends exist in the first place.
Linus
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
