Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy(2.6.11)

From: Michal Ludvig
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 23:51:06 EST


David McCullough wrote:

> Are you talking about /dev/hw_random ? If not then sorry I didn't see it :-(
>
> On a lot of the small systems I work on, /dev/random is completely
> unresponsive, and all the apps use /dev/random, not /dev/hw_random.
>
> Would you suggest making /dev/random point to /dev/hw_random then ?

Or feed the entropy pool from hw_random?

Michal Ludvig
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