linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories

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Message-ID: <20070627020045.GA5491@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:00:46 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:06:25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Which, AFAIK, we can quantify as the minimum expected entropy in the output.
> 
> The category is _not_ a measure of the entropy in the output.
> It is _just_ to get the chance to get a sane _default_ policy
> for which RNG is enabled by default, in the kernel.
> It's just about a default policy. _Nothing_ else.

Then why don't you call it "preference", or something to that effect?

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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