From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:26:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:26:33 -0400 Received: from buzz.sonic.net ([208.201.224.78]:1803 "EHLO buzz.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:26:23 -0400 X-envelope-info: Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:26:34 -0700 From: Mike Castle To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) Message-ID: <20010819192634.H30309@thune.mrc-home.com> Reply-To: Mike Castle Mail-Followup-To: Mike Castle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <482526995.998263790@[169.254.45.213]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:29:51PM +0100, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote: > The machine was bought and tested in one config. A hardware > random number generator is something else to go wrong, and > additional expense. And making a change to the kernel is not a different config? I would argue that is just as dangerous as changing the hardware configuration. mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc