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

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> David McCullough <davidm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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?


> Are we likely to see any in-kernel users of this?

We already have a hardware RNG system.  This is completely unneeded.

	Jeff


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