Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4]

[Jeff Garzik]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:25:56PM -0500, Rob Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > Well, it's not just for /dev/random but also for all in-kernel cosumers
> > of random numbers, so doing this as a sysctl makes quite a lot of sense.
> 
> And /dev/random is the user-space abstraction representing the random
> number generator... 

Not precisely.  If your userspace program can obtain random numbers in
some other way, it should...  /dev/random shouldn't be considered as the
canonical source for random bits for the entire machine.

	Jeff



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