On Sunday 24 June 2007 16:30:59 Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:55:22PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > This adds quality categories for hardware random number generators. > > > +static const char * hwrng_quality_string(enum hwrng_quality qual) > > +{ > > + switch (qual) { > > + case HWRNG_QUAL_HIGH: > > + return "high"; > > + case HWRNG_QUAL_NORMAL: > > + return "normal"; > > + case HWRNG_QUAL_LOW: > > + return "low"; > > + case HWRNG_QUAL_PSEUDO: > > + return "pseudo"; > > And how are you going to extend this in future? HWRNG_QUAL_SUPERB ?
Why extend it? "high" means devices which generate truely random data. Do you have a device which generates data more random than true-random? how? See the descriptions in hw_random.h -- 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/