Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:43:44 +0200 |
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On Sunday 24 June 2007 16:30:59 Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:55:22PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > This adds quality categories for hardware random number generators. > > > +static const char * hwrng_quality_string(enum hwrng_quality qual) > > +{ > > + switch (qual) { > > + case HWRNG_QUAL_HIGH: > > + return "high"; > > + case HWRNG_QUAL_NORMAL: > > + return "normal"; > > + case HWRNG_QUAL_LOW: > > + return "low"; > > + case HWRNG_QUAL_PSEUDO: > > + return "pseudo"; > > And how are you going to extend this in future? HWRNG_QUAL_SUPERB ?
Why extend it? "high" means devices which generate truely random data. Do you have a device which generates data more random than true-random? how?
See the descriptions in hw_random.h
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