Re: API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

[Jan Engelhardt]

>Would you suggest making /dev/random point to /dev/hw_random then ?

No. I for example do not have a hardware RNG, so `modprobe hw_random` fails 
with No Such Device. Making it a symlink would make it a dangling one.


Jan Engelhardt
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