linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE

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Message-ID: <87abirytxj.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Fri, 16 May 2008 02:27:36 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>,
	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, tpm@...horst.net,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> writes:
>
> A hw_random driver for TPM still needs to (a) parse the TPM header for
> return code, (b) extract RNG bytes out at offset 14, and (c) figure
> out some way to get a tpm_chip pointer.

(d) auto feed the information into random.c. Otherwise it'll be useless
for most people.

-Andi
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