Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932700AbVJ2WdP (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:33:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932705AbVJ2WdP (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:33:15 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:44422 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932700AbVJ2WdO (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:33:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4363F8A6.2050501@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:33:10 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Deepak Saxena , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] HW RNG cleanup & new drivers References: <20051029191229.562454000@omelas> <4363F31F.2040303@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 24 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>I would prefer to let this live in -mm at least for a little while. >>Confirmation from AMD, Intel and VIA owners would be really nice, too. AMD and >>Intel might be a little bit hard to find. I think Peter Anvin had an Intel >>ICH w/ RNG at one time... > > > I'm just wondering why via/amd/intel end up being one driver. It would > seem to be more sensible to have separate drivers for them, since they > have no real overlap.. No real reason other than historical. Split up would be my preference. Jeff - 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/