From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:56:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706261556.26934.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070625162156.18c1abba.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 01:21:56 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:55:22 +0200
> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
>
> > The qualities of the HWRNGs are different from each other.
> > So the current default policy of the hwrng core to default
> > to the first found RNG is broken. This changes the default
> > policy to select the RNG with the best quality category.
> > So for a machine with a bcm43xx and a RNG in the CPU it
> > would always default to the RNG in the CPU, as that's the
> > better one.
> > Of course, the selection can still be changed from userspace.
>
> I'm presently having git disasters with the wireless tree and am unable to
> include it in the -mm lineup so the hunk against
> drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c doesn't apply here.
>
> I stuck that change into a second patch and commented it out. I will
> hopefully remember to bring that patch back when git-wireless gets sorted
> out.
Ok, thanks. I'll tell you, in case you forget it.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-24 13:55 [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories Michael Buesch
2007-06-24 14:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-24 14:43 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-25 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 13:56 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-06-26 3:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:06 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:20 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 2:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 12:58 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 16:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 17:56 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-28 7:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:12 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26 14:32 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:45 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 3:18 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-27 12:52 ` Michael Buesch
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