From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:36:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38352 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1493555AbZHJWft (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:35:49 +0200 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n7AMYdiu024259 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:34:40 -0700 Received: from akpm.mtv.corp.google.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with SMTP id n7AMYc1i023953; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:34:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:34:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Daney Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] New hardware RNG for Octeon SOCs. Message-Id: <20090810153438.542f55e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4A806529.3060609@caviumnetworks.com> References: <4A806529.3060609@caviumnetworks.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 23891 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: akpm@linux-foundation.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:21:29 -0700 David Daney wrote: > Behold the Random Number Generator driver for Octeon! Hail! > The first patch adds some port definitions and the octeon_rng platform > device. The second is the driver. > > I am copying AKPM and Linus as there seems to be no hw_random maintainer. > > Since Octeon is a mips port, we might want to merge both patches via > Ralf's tree. > > Comments? Looks OK to me - I had a couple of minor comments. Please send the patches to Herbert and Ralf - I'd normally expect one of those two gents to be the merge path for this work.