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Re: [PATCH] (1/4) Update baycom drivers for 2.6

To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (1/4) Update baycom drivers for 2.6
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:48:12 -0700
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:00:51 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> 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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