[systemd-devel] Properly handling rngd's complex dependencies

[Cristian Rodríguez]

El 23/11/12 11:38, Lennart Poettering escribió:

> That said, what's the reason for having a userspace component for this
> at all? Why isn't all of this done inside the kernel? I mean, the kernel
> /dev/random stuff already has hooks into various subsystems to get
> entropy, it sounds trivial to also hook up RDRAND with it?
>
> Maintaing complex userspace infrastructure where a 20 line kernel patch
> or so would suffice too, doesn't sound ideal to me?

Unfortunately kernel developers seem to insist in pushing into userspace 
stuff that belongs to the kernel (notable exception on this is RDRAND 
that is actually used by the kernel to feed the entropy pool...)