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* Re: [PATCH] hwrng: ppc4xx - add support for ppc4xx TRNG
       [not found] ` <1308671762.4954.0.camel@calx>
@ 2011-06-21 16:38   ` Kim Phillips
  2011-06-21 18:59     ` Matt Mackall
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kim Phillips @ 2011-06-21 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matt Mackall; +Cc: Josh Boyer, linuxppc-dev, Herbert Xu, linux-crypto

[adding linux-crypto]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:56:02 -0500
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 08:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > +static struct hwrng ppc4xx_rng = {
> > +	.name = MODULE_NAME,
> > +	.data_present = ppc4xx_rng_data_present,
> > +	.data_read = ppc4xx_rng_data_read,
> > +};

under what criteria should new hwrng drivers use the new hwrng API?

See commit bb347d9 "hwrng: virtio-rng - Convert to new API".

Kim

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* Re: [PATCH] hwrng: ppc4xx - add support for ppc4xx TRNG
  2011-06-21 16:38   ` [PATCH] hwrng: ppc4xx - add support for ppc4xx TRNG Kim Phillips
@ 2011-06-21 18:59     ` Matt Mackall
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matt Mackall @ 2011-06-21 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kim Phillips; +Cc: Josh Boyer, linuxppc-dev, Herbert Xu, linux-crypto

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:38 -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> [adding linux-crypto]
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:56:02 -0500
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 08:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > +static struct hwrng ppc4xx_rng = {
> > > +	.name = MODULE_NAME,
> > > +	.data_present = ppc4xx_rng_data_present,
> > > +	.data_read = ppc4xx_rng_data_read,
> > > +};
> 
> under what criteria should new hwrng drivers use the new hwrng API?

If the RNG is not fundamentally u32-based (like this one), it's strongly
encouraged. We'll eventually abandon the old interface, but I don't
think there's any hurry.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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