Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263025AbVCXEkG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:40:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263027AbVCXEkF (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:40:05 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:64211 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263025AbVCXEj7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:39:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:38:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: David McCullough Cc: cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@redhat.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) Message-Id: <20050323203856.17d650ec.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050324042708.GA2806@beast> References: <20050315133644.GA25903@beast> <20050324042708.GA2806@beast> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 15 David McCullough 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. Are we likely to see any in-kernel users of this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/