Re: [PATCH, RFC 07/12] random: allow architectures to optionallydefine random_get_entropy()

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:38:26PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> 
> Are there any plans to get such function implemented on large list of 
> architectures without a get_cycles function?

For some architectures, yes.  As John Stultz pointed out, on many of
the older embedded platforms (which are many of the ones with out a
get_cycles function), the only clocksource they have is the jiffies
time source anyway.  So I'd much rather take each architecture one at
a time, and fix them right.

						- Ted
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