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Re: [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 17:34 +0200, Alexander Gabert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~pappy/kernel/linux-2.6.21.5-get_urandom_long-AT_ENTROPY.patch
> 
> this patch adds the function drivers/char/random.c:get_random_long()
> and adds an AT_ENTROPY field in the auxv without config option
> (the config option was removed as suggested by Arjan on LKML).

your patch has some whitespace damage it seems...
other than that I can agree with the approach.

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