From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760302AbZKZKuL (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:50:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751342AbZKZKuJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:50:09 -0500 Received: from bhuna.collabora.co.uk ([93.93.128.226]:60111 "EHLO bhuna.collabora.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751150AbZKZKuI (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:50:08 -0500 From: Ian Molton To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mpm@selenic.com, jeff@garzik.org Subject: Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:49:29 +0000 Message-Id: <1259232570-11918-1-git-send-email-ian.molton@collabora.co.uk> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.5 In-Reply-To: <1259197403.2858.88.camel@calx> References: <1259197403.2858.88.camel@calx> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi guys, This version uses a statically allocated buffer. I dont feel it is a good idea not to pass the address and length of the buffer to the hardware drivers, as they shouldnt have intimate knowledge of the core, IMO. Only resendiong the core patch, the virtio-rng driver hasnt changed. hw_random: core updates to allow more efficient drivers -Ian