Hello! > After a reboot the entropy estimate starts at zero, so if you are adding > data to the pool from the previous boot, you DO want the estimate to > increase because you are, in fact, adding entropy.
I'm adding entropy, but unless I record the exact amount of entropy when dumping the pool, I don't know how much I am adding, so using any fixed number is obviously wrong. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Object orientation is in the mind, not in the compiler." -- Alan Cox - 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/