[PATCH] hwrng: ppc4xx - add support for ppc4xx TRNG

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:38 -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> [adding linux-crypto]
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:56:02 -0500
> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 08:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > +static struct hwrng ppc4xx_rng = {
> > > +	.name = MODULE_NAME,
> > > +	.data_present = ppc4xx_rng_data_present,
> > > +	.data_read = ppc4xx_rng_data_read,
> > > +};
> 
> under what criteria should new hwrng drivers use the new hwrng API?

If the RNG is not fundamentally u32-based (like this one), it's strongly
encouraged. We'll eventually abandon the old interface, but I don't
think there's any hurry.

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