On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 June 2007 18:40:41 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > There *is* a much better way to deal with it, though. Add the fail always
> > RNG device, and always select it by default. Let the user specifically set
> > which RNG he wants, and it now rates as "trusted", which is the only
> > fail-proof way to go about it IMHO.
>
> Well, but it changes ABI, which is forbidden.
> After a kernel update your system will partially not work anymore.
<shrug>. At least it will not be doing anything dangerous, and it is a ABI
*fix*, so you are not just changing it for the kicks of it.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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