On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I oppose this "solution", the only devices which *must* be created > statically (and are available in the standard initramfs indeed) are null > and console.
With this reasoning you may also change Linux to allow /dev/random to be a module. It was conscious decisions, more than a decade ago, to have /dev/random *always* available. Thus it is as important as /dev/null and more usefule than console. > SSL is not used at this time of the boot process: there is no > networking, so the query is expected to (gracefully) fail anyway. It is not only used for networking but also for login services and all kind of other non-networking stuff. But if you really don't like to have /dev/random, you may configure libgcrypt with --enable-random=auto and it will fall back to rndunix which has the little disadvantage of running dozens of system utilities to build up the entropy pool. I wonder whether this has really any advantage over creating a node for an already existing device. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
