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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Generic hardware RNG support
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On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Deepak Saxena wrote:

> On Feb 28 2006, at 13:11, Michael Buesch was caught saying:
>> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:07, you wrote:
>>> Michael Buesch wrote:
>>>> Andrew, consider inclusion of the following patch into -mm
>>>> for further testing, please.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> This patch adds support for generic Hardware Random Number
>>>> Generator
>>>> drivers. This makes the usage of the bcm43xx internal RNG through
>>>> /dev/hwrandom possible.
>>>>
>>>> A patch against bcm43xx for your testing pleasure can be found at:
>>>> ftp://ftp.bu3sch.de/misc/bcm43xx-d80211-hwrng.patch
>>>
>>> Please merge with Deepak Saxena's generic RNG stuff, rather than
>>> duplicating efforts.
>>
>> Well, I did not know that someone else already wrote something
>> like this. Do you have any pointers to his stuff (patches)?
>
> Hi, I'll email you the patchset off-list so you can look at the API
> and write the bcm43xx driver against it. They are a few months old
> and
> need updating to 2.6.latest and it is on my 2.6.18 TODO. If you
> search the
> archives there were a few small issues left such as separating out
> all the
> x86 stuff into separate amd, via, and intel code instead of having
> a single
> file.

Are the patches in any state to include in -mm?

- kumar
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