On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 2:57 AM Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 19. November 2019, 11:06:02 CET schrieb Andy Lutomirski: > > Hi Andy, > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 4:16 AM Stephan Müller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 16. November 2019, 17:39:40 CET schrieb Andy Lutomirski: > > > > > > Hi Andy, > > > > > > > > On Nov 16, 2019, at 1:40 AM, Stephan Müller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The LRNG /proc interface provides the same files as the legacy > > > > > /dev/random. These files behave identically. Yet, all files are > > > > > documented at [1]. > > > > > > > > Why? > > > > > > I am not sure here: are you referring to the documentation? Or the one > > > additional file? > > > > > > If it is the documentation, do you want me to add it to the patch > > > description? I initially did not add it as these files were present and > > > seemingly known what they provide. But I would add that documentation to > > > the patch description if this is desired. > > > > Sorry, I should have been a lot more explicit. Why do you want to add > > a new interface to read the RNG? What's wrong with the old one? > > There is nothing wrong at all. I actually want to be 100% API and ABI > compliant with the existing random.c. Thus, the list of the sysctls are > identical to the existing random.c with the same behavior (hence I skipped the > documentation of these files). Whoops, I misunderstood your commit message. You said "The LRNG /proc interface provides the same files as the legacy /dev/random.". I assumed that meant that you had a file in /proc that worked like /dev/random. So never mind.
