From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267518AbUH0TWw (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:22:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267354AbUH0TSm (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:18:42 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:4746 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267421AbUH0TNl (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:13:41 -0400 Message-ID: <412F87D8.6020009@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:13:28 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Peck CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: faster via/centaur hw rng throughput patch for 2.6.8.1 References: <4ef5fec604082711523b3935f9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ef5fec604082711523b3935f9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin Peck wrote: > i have prepared a hw_random.c patch for the via / centaur C5P > processor entropy sources which utilizes module parameters to > achieve significant increases in throughput. hmmmm. Honestly I would rather just remove the VIA support from the kernel completely: it belongs in the userspace rngd (http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/) I've been meaning to do this for a while, wanna volunteer? ;-) The current code is stable and doesn't need module parameters, so I would prefer to just modify userspace rngd instead. Jeff