From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 19 01:07:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F416C1065670; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:07:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout025.mac.com (asmtpout025.mac.com [17.148.16.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73EE8FC0C; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:07:34 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp025.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LGU00AIO8BSB990@asmtp025.mac.com>; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:07:04 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-02-18_10:2011-02-19, 2011-02-18, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1102180158 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:07:04 -0800 Message-id: References: <20110218164209.GA77903@nargothrond.kdm.org> <20110218225204.GA84087@nargothrond.kdm.org> <20110218231306.GA69028@icarus.home.lan> To: Adam Vande More X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:07:35 -0000 On Feb 18, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > /dev/urandom is linked to /dev/random. Is there some other difference I'm > not aware of, or are you confusing it with Linux's random? There is no difference between the two on FreeBSD, although anyone using the platform is hoping that Yarrow is "good enough". Wikipedia has a fine article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random Regards, -- -Chuck