After going through a very long thread, and trying to work out things in words, I was frustrated enough that I decided a good way to improve the conversation was to do it in code instead of words.
I don't think any of this should be controversial... - Ted Theodore Ts'o (3): random: always update the entropy pool under the spinlock random: remove unneeded hash of a portion of the entropy pool random: only update the last_pulled time if we actually transferred entropy drivers/char/random.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) -- 2.0.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/