Re: [PATCH] Generic hardware RNG support

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

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.
> > > >
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > 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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