On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:36:02 +1100 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:47:33AM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > It looks like we all misunderstand each other - > > why do you think that if there will be kernel <-> kernel > > RNG dataflow, then system will continuously spent all > > it's time to produce that data? > > It doesn't matter whether it's like that or not. > > The point is if you do it in the kernel then either you'll have very > coarse controls over the rate of data coming out of the hardware RNG, > e.g., only on/off, or you'll have to put more code in to set the rate > appropriately. It is not the problem absolutely - just sleep if pool is full. It will limit usage but this is better than nothing. > Either way it's a loss compared to doing it in user-space. > > > -- > Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ > Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt Evgeniy Polyakov Only failure makes us experts. -- Theo de Raadt - 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/
