On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:30:57PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > Yes. Usually there is generic function doing something sane but not as > good as it could do with arch specific code. Or the code is completly > disabled unless the architecture wires it up. Dropping a new function and > hoping everyone will wire it up in no time is, ehm, brave. Nobody implemented > random_get_entropy(), everyone falls back to get_cycles. From a quick > grep I can see that atleast Hexagon, Cris, Frv, m32r and m68k return 0. I > put some of the maintainers Cc, I am curious if they know about the side > effects.
Thanks for the CC; I was not aware of the side effects. Hexagon does have a pcycles mechanism, so I will hook that up in our arch. -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/