Andi Kleen wrote: > There is also the third problem of horrible scalability of /dev/random > output on larger systems, for which patches are getting ignored. I came up with some very pretty code to fix this, which tried to copy_to_user with a lock held. After all my attempts to fix that fatal flaw resulted in much uglier code I set it aside for a while in the hopes that inspiration would strike. and it's still sitting unfinished. :-( But I want to finish it, honest! This latest discussion has made me acutely conscious of it. The fact that the scope of changes just got bigger doesn't help of course, but I *have* picked it up again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html