On Tuesday 26 June 2007 01:21:56 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:55:22 +0200
> Michael Buesch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The qualities of the HWRNGs are different from each other.
> > So the current default policy of the hwrng core to default
> > to the first found RNG is broken. This changes the default
> > policy to select the RNG with the best quality category.
> > So for a machine with a bcm43xx and a RNG in the CPU it
> > would always default to the RNG in the CPU, as that's the
> > better one.
> > Of course, the selection can still be changed from userspace.
>
> I'm presently having git disasters with the wireless tree and am unable to
> include it in the -mm lineup so the hunk against
> drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c doesn't apply here.
>
> I stuck that change into a second patch and commented it out. I will
> hopefully remember to bring that patch back when git-wireless gets sorted
> out.
Ok, thanks. I'll tell you, in case you forget it.
--
Greetings Michael.
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