Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> Maybe, i8XX hardware RNG should feed the /dev/random entropy pool
> directly if you enable the chipset support (with an option to turn
> it off if you want to use the user-space tools or a separate RNG),
> so that people get the benefits of the h/w RNG without having to
> install another tool (which they won't know about)?
>
"Let's put it in the kernel because people are too stupid to install it
otherwise"?
No thank you.
-hpa
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