On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 07:58 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Having the timeout and retries in this function is the wrong thing to do. > > We'll resubmit this without the loop and the caller will be responsible for > > retrying the operations. > > > > I would rather have the caller cede the processor or alter thread > > priority where appropriate than doing that in this function. I don't > > think this should be done in this crypto driver. > > That sounds right indeed... as long as the upper crypto layer has a > concept of "try again later"... if it doesn't it will result in random > funny failures :-) Ping ? So I'm merging 1 to 5 (ie, up to and including the hwrng driver). I will still merge the rest if you send a fix for that in the next day or so but not much longer. Cheers, Ben. -- 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
