Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device

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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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