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* [patch 0/9] New Generic HW RNG (#3)
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From: mb @ 2006-05-12 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: Deepak Saxena, bcm43xx-dev, linux-kernel, Sergey Vlasov

This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number Generator support by a fully generic RNG API.

This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules. With this patch series applied, Laptops with
a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG available now.

Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap" devices. (Written by Deepak Saxena).
This patch series includes the old patches by Deepak Saxena.

The old x86-rng driver has beed splitted.

The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through /sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience. For now it is sufficient to use cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.

Please apply to -mm for testing.


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2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 3/9] Add Intel HW RNG driver mb
2006-05-12 11:08   ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-12 20:48     ` Michael Buesch
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2006-05-12 11:05   ` David Vrabel
2006-05-12 20:46     ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-12 21:06       ` David Vrabel
2006-05-15 15:35       ` Jordan Crouse
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2006-05-12 10:35 ` [patch 9/9] Add bcm43xx HW RNG support mb
2006-05-12 15:16   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-12 15:20     ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-12 20:51     ` Michael Buesch

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