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Message-Id: <200706261556.26934.mb@bu3sch.de> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:56:26 +0200 From: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories On Tuesday 26 June 2007 01:21:56 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:55:22 +0200 > Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> wrote: > > > The qualities of the HWRNGs are different from each other. > > So the current default policy of the hwrng core to default > > to the first found RNG is broken. This changes the default > > policy to select the RNG with the best quality category. > > So for a machine with a bcm43xx and a RNG in the CPU it > > would always default to the RNG in the CPU, as that's the > > better one. > > Of course, the selection can still be changed from userspace. > > I'm presently having git disasters with the wireless tree and am unable to > include it in the -mm lineup so the hunk against > drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c doesn't apply here. > > I stuck that change into a second patch and commented it out. I will > hopefully remember to bring that patch back when git-wireless gets sorted > out. Ok, thanks. I'll tell you, in case you forget it. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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