From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751220AbWEEXTI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 19:19:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751222AbWEEXTI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 19:19:08 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:48545 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751220AbWEEXTG (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 19:19:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 16:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060505.161907.110814511.davem@davemloft.net> To: mpm@selenic.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20060505230324.GX15445@waste.org> References: <8.420169009@selenic.com> <20060505.141040.53473194.davem@davemloft.net> <20060505230324.GX15445@waste.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Matt Mackall Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:03:24 -0500 > And my claim is they don't actually have any entropy. If they want > to continue fooling themselves, they can copy the device node for > /dev/urandom to /dev/random. Prove it and convince us. The burdon of proof is on your shoulders, since you're the one who wants to just rip it out without any satisfactory replacement.