Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 | Date | Tue, 14 May 1996 15:47:54 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi,
> The random device is a fairly useful thing to have (I use it for > input values to "crashme" ;-) but there lots of people who don't > use it for anything. For those people, it would be useful to have a > CONFIG_RANDOM option, so that they can save a bit of space, and avoid > the small overhead associated with all the add_XXX_randomness() calls.
The random generator is sometimes used inside the kernel itself -- for example in my BOOTP code. I think it isn't a good idea to allow disabling it.
Martin Mares
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