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Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering



> No amount of uptime and activity was increasing the entropy in my
> system before I patched it.

As I understand it, entropy was being contributed.  What wasn't
happening was the random driver code recognizing and acknowledging that
entropy, because it had no way to tell how much of it there really was.

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