Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
David McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine:
	add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords);

It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels.  2.6.11 is
very old in kernel time.
Hrm.  This is getting pretty lame, if you can't take patches from the 
-latest- stable release.  It's pretty easy in BK:

        bk clone -ql -rv2.6.11 linux-2.6 rng-2.6.11
        cd rng-2.6.11
        { apply patch }
        bk pull ../linux-2.6
Can you set up something like that?

Are we likely to see any in-kernel users of this?
We already have a hardware RNG system.  This is completely unneeded.
        Jeff
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