From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761300AbXF0M7i (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:59:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758835AbXF0M7a (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:59:30 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:43538 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758258AbXF0M73 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:59:29 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:58:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel References: <200706241555.22957.mb@bu3sch.de> <200706261620.33898.mb@bu3sch.de> <20070627020045.GA5491@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20070627020045.GA5491@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706271458.51884.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 27 June 2007 04:00:46 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:06:25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Which, AFAIK, we can quantify as the minimum expected entropy in the output. > > > > The category is _not_ a measure of the entropy in the output. > > It is _just_ to get the chance to get a sane _default_ policy > > for which RNG is enabled by default, in the kernel. > > It's just about a default policy. _Nothing_ else. > > Then why don't you call it "preference", or something to that effect? Why? Because I did not get the same idea as you? So, please make up "preference" categories and give me some examples. -- Greetings Michael.