On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:19:08PM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:02:36PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > That would never make it anywhere near mainline, so you would have a > > choice of dumping that into every UML pool you build or fixing your > > filesystems to use the rngtools. > > Yeah -- it comes down to how often you build new > distributions vs how often you build new kernels. Oh, and > whether you anticipate tech support load from people who > disable the hwrng userland tools and then discover that > their virtual machine hangs on boot.
Quite - supporting kernel patches is much easier than O/S changes. This is why we now enforce cad = halt by disabling reboot functionality in the kernel, rather than maintaining a change to /etc/inittab. I admit that a proper pass-through drive for /dev/random might be a nicer solution, but for us, hwrng is not. Paul ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
