On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 20:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > David McCullough <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: > > > > add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); > > It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels. 2.6.11 is > very old in kernel time. > > Are we likely to see any in-kernel users of this? Any external crtypto framework can add entropy using that routing. Currently it can be - OCF - acrypto - hw_random.c hw_random.c already does it using userspace daemons, which is bad idea for very fast HW - like VIA xstore/xcrypt instructions. -- Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski
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