Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:19:43 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] hw_random: allow rng_dev_read() to return hardware errors. |
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:25:24AM +0000, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > From: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com> > > The api for hardware random number generators is currently limited to > devices that never fail. If the hardware is registered as a source for > random numbers it has to work. This prevents the use of i/o based > random number devices where the i/o might fail. > > Add a check for errors after the read from a hardware random number device. > > This patch is required to support large random numbers retrieved > from the CEX2C cards on System z. > > Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Thanks for the patch. I'll pick this up in cryptodev-2.6.
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