On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > As an aside... > > Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware > RNG entropy gathering daemon... > > I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and > combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package. I think we should re-evaluate having an internal path from the hwrngs to /dev/[u]random, which will reduce the need for userspace config that can go wrong. -- 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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