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

[Rob Love]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:42, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 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.

s/the random number generator/the kernel's random number generator
(random.c)/

E.g., my point was that the device file was the user-space
representation of the kernel rng, so associating the kernel rng
attributes with the device file made sense.  I did not mean to imply it
was the be-all and end-all of rng's on the machine.

	Rob Love


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