Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:32:26 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) |
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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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