On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 12:40 -0700, stan wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:50:10 -0700 > Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 19:27 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > (Also, why is there a userspace component for this stuff in the > > > first place? I mean streaming data from one corner of the kernel to > > > another corner of the kernel is something probably better done > > > inside of the kernel instead of involving userspace at all with > > > this...) > > > > That, I don't know, and I'd sort of wondered the same. Don't know who > > can enlighten us as to the answer. > > Some maybe irrelevant information: > > There is a user accessible kernel interface that allows user > started daemons to feed entropy into the kernel entropy pool. It works > via a callback mechanism. I use it to harvest entropy from atmospheric > noise and sound card noise and feed it into the pool. I'm not sure if > that is the same thing you are talking about. What it means is that > the kernel doesn't have to know anything about the device providing the > entropy (no need for a driver). > > There is also a kernel process that harvests entropy from hard disk > noise and keyboard and mouse movement. I'm not sure if it is part of > rngd or not. Thanks for the note, but no, none of this is relevant to the specific problem here. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/RVILXUJI6U65KVT75RERFVYGVXRHUDVM/
