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

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:18:35AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 > 
 > >Would you suggest making /dev/random point to /dev/hw_random then ?
 > 
 > No. I for example do not have a hardware RNG, so `modprobe hw_random` fails 
 > with No Such Device. Making it a symlink would make it a dangling one.

It shouldn't be a symlink. Something like rngd should read from it
and feed it into /dev/random's entropy pool.

		Dave

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