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    DateWed, 23 Mar 2005 21:32:26 -0800
    FromAndrew Morton <>
    SubjectRe: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)
    Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
    >
    > > It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels.  2.6.11 is
    >  > very old in kernel time.
    > 
    >  Hrm.  This is getting pretty lame, if you can't take patches from the 
    >  -latest- stable release.  It's pretty easy in BK:
    > 
    >  	bk clone -ql -rv2.6.11 linux-2.6 rng-2.6.11
    >  	cd rng-2.6.11
    >  	{ apply patch }
    >  	bk pull ../linux-2.6
    > 
    >  Can you set up something like that?
    
    About thirty patches have gone into random.c since 2.6.11.  But the patch
    was easy enough to apply anyway.
    
    And then, it didn't compile.  I don't think bk will fix that.
    
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