On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:25:24AM +0000, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > From: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The api for hardware random number generators is currently limited to > devices that never fail. If the hardware is registered as a source for > random numbers it has to work. This prevents the use of i/o based > random number devices where the i/o might fail. > > Add a check for errors after the read from a hardware random number device. > > This patch is required to support large random numbers retrieved > from the CEX2C cards on System z. > > Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for the patch. I'll pick this up in cryptodev-2.6. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
