From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757348AbXFZN5S (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:57:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755386AbXFZN5H (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:57:07 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:44758 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754342AbXFZN5G (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:57:06 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:56:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "linux-kernel" References: <200706241555.22957.mb@bu3sch.de> <20070625162156.18c1abba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070625162156.18c1abba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706261556.26934.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 26 June 2007 01:21:56 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:55:22 +0200 > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > The qualities of the HWRNGs are different from each other. > > So the current default policy of the hwrng core to default > > to the first found RNG is broken. This changes the default > > policy to select the RNG with the best quality category. > > So for a machine with a bcm43xx and a RNG in the CPU it > > would always default to the RNG in the CPU, as that's the > > better one. > > Of course, the selection can still be changed from userspace. > > I'm presently having git disasters with the wireless tree and am unable to > include it in the -mm lineup so the hunk against > drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c doesn't apply here. > > I stuck that change into a second patch and commented it out. I will > hopefully remember to bring that patch back when git-wireless gets sorted > out. Ok, thanks. I'll tell you, in case you forget it. -- Greetings Michael.