Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Sun May 07 2006 - 01:13:17 EST


On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:22:00PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > Again, I think it's perfectly reasonable to sample from all sorts of
> > sources. All my issues are about the entropy accounting.
>
> But in that case your patch which removes the call to add_entropy() is
> probably not the right thing, yes?

Note the emphatic "again", because I conceded that in my very first
response to you.

The question is, what is the right thing? Not what we have now.

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