Hi Steve, I just build the patches, a build error found here: drivers/char/random.c: In function ‘get_random_int’: drivers/char/random.c:1816:7: error: assignment from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] hash = &get_locked_var(hash_entropy_int_lock, get_random_int_hash); ^ drivers/char/random.c: In function ‘get_random_long’: drivers/char/random.c:1838:7: error: assignment from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] hash = &get_locked_var(hash_entropy_int_lock, get_random_int_hash); ^ > - hash = get_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash); > + hash = &get_locked_var(hash_entropy_int_lock, get_random_int_hash); ^ Is this a extra '&' which need to remove? > > hash[0] += current->pid + jiffies + random_get_entropy(); > md5_transform(hash, random_int_secret); > ret = hash[0]; > - put_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash); > + put_locked_var(hash_entropy_int_lock, get_random_int_hash); > > return ret; > } > @@ -1833,12 +1835,12 @@ unsigned long get_random_long(void) > if (arch_get_random_long(&ret)) > return ret; > > - hash = get_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash); > + hash = &get_locked_var(hash_entropy_int_lock, get_random_int_hash); ^ Ditto Regards Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html