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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 02:27:36 +0200
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Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
>
> A hw_random driver for TPM still needs to (a) parse the TPM header for
> return code, (b) extract RNG bytes out at offset 14, and (c) figure
> out some way to get a tpm_chip pointer.

(d) auto feed the information into random.c. Otherwise it'll be useless
for most people.

-Andi