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SubjectRe : [HW_RNG] How to use generic rng in kernel space
Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 17:39, moreau francis wrote:
>> Michael Buesch wrote:
>>> So, if you have a special hwrng on your embedded board and you
>>> have some special driver in that board, why not interface
>>> directly from the driver to the hwrng-driver?
>> This is what I'm currently doing. I was just thinking to use the
>> new HW-RNG layer and drop common code...
>>
>>> This is all pretty special case.
>>> In the hwrng-driver you could still additionally do a
>>> hrwng_register() to export the functionality to
>>> userspace, though.
>>>
>> yes I would like to do that but there is a problem: I have no
>> access to "rng_mutex" to synchronise hw accesses and I'm
>> wondering if there's any issue to use a mutex in driver init
>> code.
>
> Use your own mutex or spinlock in the data_read callback
> and use that to serialize accesses to the hardware.
>

I think I miss something there but I need to lock this whole
sequence when reading a random data:

lock(hwrng);
rng_data_present();
rng_data_read();
unlock(hwrng);

not only data_read callback. To do that I can only use "rng_mutex",
no ?

thanks

Francis


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