From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757041AbYEPHdK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 03:33:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752162AbYEPHc4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 03:32:56 -0400 Received: from mtagate8.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.141]:17123 "EHLO mtagate8.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752080AbYEPHc4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 03:32:56 -0400 From: Christian Borntraeger To: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:31:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeff Garzik , Herbert Xu , LKML , "H. Anvin" References: <482C8595.5030509@garzik.org> <200805160943.08788.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200805161531.44725.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200805161531.44725.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805160931.53875.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Freitag, 16. Mai 2008 schrieb Rusty Russell: > virtio: An entropy device, as suggested by hpa. > > Note that by itself, having a "hardware" random generator does very > little: you should probably run "rngd" in your guest to feed this into > the kernel entropy pool. > > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell > --- > drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 10 ++ > drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile | 1 > drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/virtio_rng.h | 8 ++ > 4 files changed, 162 insertions(+) Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger