Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756891AbXFTPlm (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:41:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753757AbXFTPlf (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:41:35 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58757 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752570AbXFTPle (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:41:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Alexander Gabert Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hardened@gentoo.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <467948F5.3010709@gentoo.org> References: <4675C678.3080807@gentoo.org> <1182128803.22999.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4675DFA8.6060703@gentoo.org> <1182130680.22999.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4676601A.7070209@gentoo.org> <467948F5.3010709@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:38:00 -0700 Message-Id: <1182353880.2701.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 (2.10.2-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 17:34 +0200, Alexander Gabert wrote: > Hi, > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~pappy/kernel/linux-2.6.21.5-get_urandom_long-AT_ENTROPY.patch > > this patch adds the function drivers/char/random.c:get_random_long() > and adds an AT_ENTROPY field in the auxv without config option > (the config option was removed as suggested by Arjan on LKML). your patch has some whitespace damage it seems... other than that I can agree with the approach. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/