New Generic HW RNG [LWN.net]

From:		Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To:		akpm@osdl.org
Subject:		[patch 0/6] New Generic HW RNG
Date:		Sun, 07 May 2006 13:35:13 +0200
Cc:		Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>, mbuesch@freenet.de, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number
Generator support by a fully generic RNG API.

This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules. With this
patch series applied, Laptops with
a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG available now.

Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap"
devices. (Written by Deepak Saxena).
This patch series includes the old patches by Deepak Saxena.

The x86-rng driver is the old RNG driver ported to the new API (and cleaned
up a bit).

Please apply to -mm for testing.