I built my first 5.6 custom kernel from the src.rpm yesterday in F31. And my patch to enable the use of a daemon I run to gather entropy from an rtl2832 (atmospheric) and put it into the kernel to keep the entropy pool full failed. This has happened in the past, that's why I have to patch, but the interface was never removed before. If it has been removed, can you point me to the discussion that led to that decision. I have to determine how secure it will be to modify random.c again in order to continue feeding entropy to the kernel. On another note, an observation. There seem to be pretty frequent major revisions in the kernel PRNG generator. In some ways this is a good thing, because it indicates that people are paying attention to it. But it also means that past versions have been deemed unsuitable, which decreases confidence that the current version is suitable. So, I would be appreciative if you could also point me to the discussion surrounding the latest major change. Thanks. _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
