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List:       linux-crypto-vger
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] hwrng: ppc4xx - add support for ppc4xx TRNG
From:       Matt Mackall <mpm () selenic ! com>
Date:       2011-06-21 18:59:55
Message-ID: 1308682795.4954.42.camel () calx
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On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:38 -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> [adding linux-crypto]
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:56:02 -0500
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 08:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > +static struct hwrng ppc4xx_rng = {
> > > +	.name = MODULE_NAME,
> > > +	.data_present = ppc4xx_rng_data_present,
> > > +	.data_read = ppc4xx_rng_data_read,
> > > +};
> 
> under what criteria should new hwrng drivers use the new hwrng API?

If the RNG is not fundamentally u32-based (like this one), it's strongly
encouraged. We'll eventually abandon the old interface, but I don't
think there's any hurry.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.


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