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

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:32:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

No, the names of all the pools changed. I agree with Jeff, this patch
is unnecessary. If we actually wanted such an interface, I'd rather it
refactor things so as not to reproduce the wake up logic.

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