On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:22:00PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > Again, I think it's perfectly reasonable to sample from all sorts of > > sources. All my issues are about the entropy accounting. > > But in that case your patch which removes the call to add_entropy() is > probably not the right thing, yes? Note the emphatic "again", because I conceded that in my very first response to you. The question is, what is the right thing? Not what we have now. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/
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