From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: ppc4xx - add support for ppc4xx TRNG
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:59:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308682795.4954.42.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110621113836.fbf14710.kim.phillips@freescale.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-21 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-21 12:19 [PATCH] hwrng: ppc4xx - add support for ppc4xx TRNG Josh Boyer
2011-06-21 15:56 ` Matt Mackall
2011-06-21 16:38 ` Kim Phillips
2011-06-21 18:59 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2011-06-22 11:14 ` Josh Boyer
2011-06-22 11:58 ` Herbert Xu
2011-06-27 7:39 ` Herbert Xu
2011-06-22 14:49 ` Williams, Michael (mwilli60)
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