Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move the tpm_get_random api and add an hwrng driverfor it

From: David Safford
Date: Fri Jun 08 2012 - 15:13:35 EST


On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 13:42 -0500, Kent Yoder wrote:
> These patches move the tpm_get_random API out of the trusted keys code
> and into the tpm device driver itself. Then a hwrng driver is added that
> makes use of the API to provide a H/W RNG source.

Very nice! checkpatch complained a bit on patch 1, but otherwise,
Acked-by: David Safford <safford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> These are based off the latest upstream kernel.
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
> Kent Yoder (2):
> tpm: Move tpm_get_random api into the TPM device driver
> hw_random: add support for the TPM chip as a hardware RNG source
>
> drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++
> drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/char/hw_random/tpm-rng.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/tpm.h | 4 +++
> security/keys/trusted.c | 47 +++++++-------------------------
> 7 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/char/hw_random/tpm-rng.c
>

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