| To: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| 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 |
| Cc: | t.sailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-hams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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| Organization: | Open Source Development Lab |
| References: | <20030919133750.4053f72c.shemminger@osdl.org> <3F6CA3E3.9060909@pobox.com> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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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