Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263044AbVCXFoe (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:44:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263043AbVCXFoe (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:44:34 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:14057 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262687AbVCXFo1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:44:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4242538A.10200@osdl.org> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:43:38 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Andrew Morton , David McCullough , 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) References: <20050315133644.GA25903@beast> <20050324042708.GA2806@beast> <20050323203856.17d650ec.akpm@osdl.org> <42424D52.7070508@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <42424D52.7070508@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1251 Lines: 40 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> 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. > > > 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 - 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/