On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 12:40 -0700, stan wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:50:10 -0700
> Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 19:27 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > (Also, why is there a userspace component for this stuff in the
> > > first place? I mean streaming data from one corner of the kernel to
> > > another corner of the kernel is something probably better done
> > > inside of the kernel instead of involving userspace at all with
> > > this...)  
> > 
> > That, I don't know, and I'd sort of wondered the same. Don't know who
> > can enlighten us as to the answer.
> 
> Some maybe irrelevant information:
> 
> There is a user accessible kernel interface that allows user
> started daemons to feed entropy into the kernel entropy pool.  It works
> via a callback mechanism.  I use it to harvest entropy from atmospheric
> noise and sound card noise and feed it into the pool. I'm not sure if
> that is the same thing you are talking about.  What it means is that
> the kernel doesn't have to know anything about the device providing the
> entropy (no need for a driver).
> 
> There is also a kernel process that harvests entropy from hard disk
> noise and keyboard and mouse movement.  I'm not sure if it is part of
> rngd or not.

Thanks for the note, but no, none of this is relevant to the specific
problem here.
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