On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:53:54PM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote: > > What do you think about those two solutions ? > > I prefer the second solution's idea of using two files (/dev/hwrng and > /dev/hwprng). Upon having a quick glance it looks like (based on > current_rng == prng check) that your current implementation allows > only one rng device to be in use at a time. It would be better to have > both usable at the same time. So applications that need pseudo random > data at high speed can use /dev/prng while applications that require > true random number can use /dev/rng. Please feel free to correct if my > understanding of the code is incorrect. Along with this change I think > changing the algif_rng to use this code if this solution is going to > be used. > No, there could be both device at the same time. -- 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
