Re: [PATCH] Generic hardware RNG support

From: Kumar Gala
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 21:55:51 EST



On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Deepak Saxena wrote:

On Feb 28 2006, at 13:11, Michael Buesch was caught saying:
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:07, you wrote:
Michael Buesch wrote:
Andrew, consider inclusion of the following patch into -mm
for further testing, please.

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This patch adds support for generic Hardware Random Number Generator
drivers. This makes the usage of the bcm43xx internal RNG through
/dev/hwrandom possible.

A patch against bcm43xx for your testing pleasure can be found at:
ftp://ftp.bu3sch.de/misc/bcm43xx-d80211-hwrng.patch

Please merge with Deepak Saxena's generic RNG stuff, rather than
duplicating efforts.

Well, I did not know that someone else already wrote something
like this. Do you have any pointers to his stuff (patches)?

Hi, I'll email you the patchset off-list so you can look at the API
and write the bcm43xx driver against it. They are a few months old and
need updating to 2.6.latest and it is on my 2.6.18 TODO. If you search the
archives there were a few small issues left such as separating out all the
x86 stuff into separate amd, via, and intel code instead of having a single
file.

Are the patches in any state to include in -mm?

- kumar
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