On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:38, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Second try. Various fixes included. This does even compile (and work) now. :)
>
It would be good to give the patches more descriptive names, currently
they all have the same subject lines, which is not really helpful.
> The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
> /sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience. For now it is sufficient to
> use cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.
When you're making the behaviour of hw_random configurable, maybe you could
also add an option to automatically use the current hw_random driver to
feed the /dev/random entropy pool on systems where the administrator trusts
its randomness.
Arnd <><
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