From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] HW RNG cleanup & new drivers
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:33:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4363F8A6.2050501@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510291524050.3348@g5.osdl.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 19:12 [patch 0/5] HW RNG cleanup & new drivers Deepak Saxena
2005-10-29 19:12 ` [patch 1/5] Remove existing hw_random implementation Deepak Saxena
2005-10-29 19:12 ` [patch 2/5] Core HW RNG support Deepak Saxena
2002-01-01 5:46 ` Pavel Machek
2005-10-29 19:12 ` [patch 3/5] Intel IXP4xx driver Deepak Saxena
2005-10-29 19:12 ` [patch 4/5] x86 driver Deepak Saxena
2005-10-29 19:12 ` [patch 5/5] TI OMAP driver Deepak Saxena
2005-10-29 22:09 ` [patch 0/5] HW RNG cleanup & new drivers Jeff Garzik
2005-10-29 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-29 22:33 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-10-30 19:58 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-10-30 0:23 ` Gene Heskett
2005-10-30 14:31 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-10-30 18:08 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2005-10-30 19:35 ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-10-30 20:02 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-10-30 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-30 23:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
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