On 13 Oct 2013, at 16:13, Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Surely this works, thank you. The rwfile.c content probably should be
> taken under the #ifdef RANDOM_RWFILE.

OK - thanks for the feedback!

> But I do not see much use for the randomdev_read_file() and
> randomdev_write_file() functions. It would be better to directly code
> the VFS calls in the random_harvestq_cache(). For one thing, it would
> eliminate unneccessary close and open of the entropy file.

There is some uncertainty about the future of that code, so I want
to keep it that way for now. Writing files from the kernel is making so@
very uncomfortable, and there is too much scope for error there.

We'll settle it down properly in 11.*.

M
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Mark R V Murray

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