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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:38:56 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Cc: cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy
 (2.6.11)
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David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine:
> 
>  	add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords);

It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels.  2.6.11 is
very old in kernel time.

Are we likely to see any in-kernel users of this?