Re: Yet another updated entropy patch

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:52:39AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> What do you perceive as the benefit of having the entropy mixing
> function outside of the device framework in its own user space server?

The very same reasons why we bother with this microkernel stuff at all:

- Reducing memory and CPU footprint of kernel

- Reducing amount of code running in kernel mode

- Improving flexibility/hackability

-antrik-