From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:56:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706271956.29244.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070627164041.GA6508@khazad-dum.debian.net>
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.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-27 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-24 13:55 [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories Michael Buesch
2007-06-24 14:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-24 14:43 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-25 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 13:56 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26 3:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:06 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:20 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 2:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 12:58 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 16:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 17:56 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-06-28 7:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:12 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26 14:32 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:45 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 3:18 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-27 12:52 ` Michael Buesch
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