From: Stephen Hemminger (xhdhvay@router.dir.pl)
Date: Sun Sep 21 2003 - 00:48:12 EEST
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:00:51 -0400
Jeff Garzik <dyrdlopz@bmf.hu> wrote:
> hum. I seem to be missing patch 4/4...
>
patch 4 was replacing local random with get_random_bytes.
Probably not a good idea since people seem to be paranoid
about losing entropy ...
A good future thing would be to make a kernel version of random()
for all drivers that uses get_random_bytes as a seed, but doesn't
drain the pool in normal use.
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