Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:45:18 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: dsaxena@plexity.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.net, akpm@osdl.org,
       tony@atomide.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] Core HW RNG support
Message-ID: <20051024104518.GA18631@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> This patch adds support for the HW RNG core. The core code
> simply implements the user space interface and calls HW-specific
> function pointers to do the real data gathering. We do this
> instead of having each driver re-implement the user space functionality
> so we do not end up with a bunch of drivers replicating the exact 
> same 50 lines of code (see drivers/watchdog). 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
> 

> Index: linux-2.6-rng/drivers/char/rng/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- /dev/null
> +++ linux-2.6-rng/drivers/char/rng/Makefile

Could we have it named drivers/char/random, or perhaps just
drivers/random?

							Pavel

-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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