Re: Q for a new API for the random device driver

2018-06-06 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 04:58:29PM +0200, Harald Freudenberger wrote: > Had a short glimpse to the mentioned add_hwgenerator_randomness() > and this looks in fact like the API I am looking for :-) > Thanks Stephan, I'll write some code and check this out. The more convenient interface would be

Re: Q for a new API for the random device driver

2018-06-06 Thread Harald Freudenberger
On 06.06.2018 16:26, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote: > Hi Herald, > > On 6 June 2018 at 18:18, Harald Freudenberger wrote: >> Hello Theodore, hi Linux Community >> >> my patch for the s390 arch_get_random_seed* implementation is about to >> be integrated with the current merge window for kernel

Re: Q for a new API for the random device driver

2018-06-06 Thread Harald Freudenberger
On 06.06.2018 15:11, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2018, 14:48:33 CEST schrieb Harald Freudenberger: > > Hi Harald, >> I am still searching for a way to provide our good hardware entropy >> source to the random pool in the random device driver. So I'd like to >> have a new arch

Re: Q for a new API for the random device driver

2018-06-06 Thread PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
Hi Herald, On 6 June 2018 at 18:18, Harald Freudenberger wrote: > Hello Theodore, hi Linux Community > > my patch for the s390 arch_get_random_seed* implementation is about to > be integrated with the current merge window for kernel 4.18. > > So I'd like to start a discussion about a new API for

Re: Q for a new API for the random device driver

2018-06-06 Thread Stephan Mueller
Am Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2018, 14:48:33 CEST schrieb Harald Freudenberger: Hi Harald, > > I am still searching for a way to provide our good hardware entropy > source to the random pool in the random device driver. So I'd like to > have a new arch interface which is called when the random pool finds

Q for a new API for the random device driver

2018-06-06 Thread Harald Freudenberger
Hello Theodore, hi Linux Community my patch for the s390 arch_get_random_seed* implementation is about to be integrated with the current merge window for kernel 4.18. So I'd like to start a discussion about a new API for the random.c device driver. The current s390 hardware comes with a true