Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:32:26 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: 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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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > 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?

About thirty patches have gone into random.c since 2.6.11.  But the patch
was easy enough to apply anyway.

And then, it didn't compile.  I don't think bk will fix that.

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