Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels.  2.6.11 is
>  > very old in kernel time.
> 
>  Hrm.  This is getting pretty lame, if you can't take patches from the 
>  -latest- stable release.  It's pretty easy in BK:
> 
>  	bk clone -ql -rv2.6.11 linux-2.6 rng-2.6.11
>  	cd rng-2.6.11
>  	{ apply patch }
>  	bk pull ../linux-2.6
> 
>  Can you set up something like that?

About thirty patches have gone into random.c since 2.6.11.  But the patch
was easy enough to apply anyway.

And then, it didn't compile.  I don't think bk will fix that.

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