Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:31:53 +0200
- From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device
Am Freitag, 16. Mai 2008 schrieb Rusty Russell:
> virtio: An entropy device, as suggested by hpa.
>
> Note that by itself, having a "hardware" random generator does very
> little: you should probably run "rngd" in your guest to feed this into
> the kernel entropy pool.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 10 ++
> drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile | 1
> drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/virtio_rng.h | 8 ++
> 4 files changed, 162 insertions(+)
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
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