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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:21:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070625162156.18c1abba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706241555.22957.mb@bu3sch.de>

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:55:22 +0200
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:

> The qualities of the HWRNGs are different from each other.
> So the current default policy of the hwrng core to default
> to the first found RNG is broken. This changes the default
> policy to select the RNG with the best quality category.
> So for a machine with a bcm43xx and a RNG in the CPU it
> would always default to the RNG in the CPU, as that's the
> better one.
> Of course, the selection can still be changed from userspace.

I'm presently having git disasters with the wireless tree and am unable to
include it in the -mm lineup so the hunk against
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c doesn't apply here.

I stuck that change into a second patch and commented it out.  I will
hopefully remember to bring that patch back when git-wireless gets sorted
out.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-25 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-24 13:55 [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories Michael Buesch
2007-06-24 14:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-24 14:43   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-25 23:21 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-06-26 13:56   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26  3:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:06   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:20     ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27  2:00       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 12:58         ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 16:40           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 17:56             ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-28  7:57               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:12   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26 14:32     ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:45       ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27  3:18         ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-27 12:52           ` Michael Buesch

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