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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:17:06 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
CC: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>, 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)
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com> 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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