On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 02:41, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On 21 Feb 2002, Tomas Ukkonen wrote: > > What is a good way to get (quality) random numbers while in a interrupt > > handler and/or in kernel mode or should I generate them myself? > > TIA, > > Tomas Ukkonen > > Some way to access /dev/random ??> Yes, that's probably the right way to do it. I was just wondering if there's some reason why I shouldn't. Drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c generates its own random numbers. Does anyone know why it does that or is it just sloppy coding? -- Tomas Ukkonen -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
