From: Manon Goo <manon@manon.de>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
Cc: arrays@compaq.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@MIT.EDU,
"Markus Schröder" <schroeder.markus@allianz.de>
Subject: Re: Hooks for random device entropy generation missing in cpqarray.c
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:39:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4915602.1016642384@eva.dhcp.gimlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203201630100.1268-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz>
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No its is not there are certain bloc devices like cpqarray an mylex DAC960
(which handles this correctly)
which do noether use the SCSI or the IDE driver.
Manon
--On Mittwoch, 20. März 2002 16:38 Uhr +0200 Zwane Mwaikambo
<zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Manon Goo wrote:
>
>> All hooks for the random ganeration (add_blkdev_randomness() ) are
>> ignored in the cpqarray / ida driver.
>> Is a patch available ?
>> or an other updated driver ?
>> any hints where to put add_blkdev_randomness() in your driver ?
>
> Its all handled by drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c, its a generic service so is
> done for all drivers.
>
>> is add_interrupt_randomness() called on an i386 SMP IO-APCI system ?
>
> Yes, check out arch/i386/kernel/irq.c:handle_IRQ_event, irq.c is the
> generic code which sits on top of the real interrupt controller driver,
> be it an IOAPIC or regular PIC.
>
> Cheers,
> Zwane
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-20 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-20 13:33 Manon Goo
2002-03-20 14:38 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-20 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-20 15:39 ` Manon Goo [this message]
2002-03-20 15:42 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-20 14:25 White, Charles
2002-03-20 16:06 ` Manon Goo
[not found] <A2C35BB97A9A384CA2816D24522A53BB01E88B79@cceexc18.americas.cpqc <5013428.1016644014@eva.dhcp.gimlab.org>
2002-03-20 16:16 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-20 16:29 ` Manon Goo
2002-03-20 21:07 Stephen Cameron
2002-03-20 21:24 ` Manon Goo
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