From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764240AbXF1H5f (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:57:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760434AbXF1H52 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:57:28 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:60765 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755666AbXF1H51 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:57:27 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: mrSwpnULy2UaAX/VU2eL6AajETGMiosYJCiIvkviMUWU 1183017446 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:57:19 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Michael Buesch Cc: Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories Message-ID: <20070628075719.GA13258@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <200706241555.22957.mb@bu3sch.de> <200706271458.51884.mb@bu3sch.de> <20070627164041.GA6508@khazad-dum.debian.net> <200706271956.29244.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200706271956.29244.mb@bu3sch.de> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Wednesday 27 June 2007 18:40:41 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > There *is* a much better way to deal with it, though. Add the fail always > > RNG device, and always select it by default. Let the user specifically set > > which RNG he wants, and it now rates as "trusted", which is the only > > fail-proof way to go about it IMHO. > > Well, but it changes ABI, which is forbidden. > After a kernel update your system will partially not work anymore. . At least it will not be doing anything dangerous, and it is a ABI *fix*, so you are not just changing it for the kicks of it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh