From: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, 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: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:58:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051030195813.GA4794@plexity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4363F8A6.2050501@pobox.com>
On Oct 29 2005, at 18:33, Jeff Garzik was caught saying:
> 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.
OK, will split and send to Andrew for -mm tree.
~Deepak
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-30 19:58 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
2005-10-30 19:58 ` Deepak Saxena [this message]
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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