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

[Randy.Dunlap]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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?

I thought that the latest stable release was 2.6.11.5.

However, what I really want to do is ask what patches should be
made against.  I suggested on linux-scsi a day or 2 ago that
they should be made against the latest linus-bk (or snapshot)
unless the patch only applies to -mm, then they should obviously
be made against -mm.  2.6.11 plain is relatively aged IMO also....

--
~Randy
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