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

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 05:56:08 EST


On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:50:28PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> Without ability speed this up in kernel, we completely [ok, almost]
> loose all RNG advantages.

Well if you can demonstrate that you're getting a higher rate of
throughput from your RNG by doing this in kernel space vs. doing
it in user space please let me know.
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