On Wednesday 27 June 2007 00:45:18 Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:21:51PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Don't use the word "quality", as people seem to think of > > the entropy quality when hearing that word. > > Why do I so often feel compelled to respond with "did you read what I > wrote?" on this list?
Because you ignored my explanations. > I object to your MEANINGLESS CATEGORIES. > > > This uses the word "type", which is probably better for > > understanding what the value really means. > > Please explain: > > a) how is bad different from pseudo? > b) how is onboard different than dedicated? Read the Kdoc help text in the patch. It explains it. > I maintain that there are exactly two categories on this axis: real > and fake. And I'd rather stomp all over this notion of other > categories you've invented now before people actually start trying to > use them. > > There are also two other axes that this approach neglects. Trusted > (another boolean) and bitrate (a scalar). No. Read this: I will explain it once again: It is _just_ to select a default policy of which RNG is initialized by default. The type does say _nothing_ about the entropy quality or something else. It _just_ judges about which RNG is preferred for default initialization. External RNG boards are preferred over internal onboard stuff; onboard is preferred over bad RNGs like bcm43xx; bcm43xx is preferred over devices that are not RNGs by definition but could be used as such (sensors). -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
