You're right, but when kernel developers talk about /dev/random they generally mean the underlying RNG, not the interface by which you access it. To a userland

You're right, but when kernel developers talk about /dev/random they generally mean the underlying RNG, not the interface by which you access it. To a userland developer the phrase "read from /dev/random via the getrandom system call" is nonsense but to a kernel developer it sounds reasonable.