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
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:45:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051024104518.GA18631@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051019091715.801905000@omelas>
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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-24 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-19 8:19 [patch 0/5] RNG cleanup & new drivers attempt #1 dsaxena
2005-10-19 8:19 ` [patch 1/5] Remove existing hw_random implementation dsaxena
2005-10-19 8:19 ` [patch 2/5] Core HW RNG support dsaxena
2005-10-24 10:45 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-10-19 8:19 ` [patch 3/5] Intel IXP4xx driver dsaxena
2005-10-19 8:19 ` [patch 4/5] x86 driver dsaxena
2005-10-19 8:19 ` [patch 5/5] TI OMAP driver dsaxena
2005-10-19 9:36 ` Eric Piel
2005-10-19 9:44 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-10-21 16:35 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-10-21 18:00 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-10-21 19:10 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-10-23 18:12 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-10-19 15:01 ` [patch 0/5] RNG cleanup & new drivers attempt #1 Jeff Garzik
2005-10-19 17:25 ` Deepak Saxena
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-29 19:12 [patch 0/5] HW RNG cleanup & new drivers Deepak Saxena
2005-10-29 19:12 ` [patch 2/5] Core HW RNG support Deepak Saxena
2002-01-01 5:46 ` Pavel Machek
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