Re: [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5

2007-06-25 Thread Alexander Gabert
Hi Matt, sorry for not answering your questions in the first place, i hope this did not mean to make a bad impression Matt Mackall schrieb: On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 07:45:04PM +0200, Alexander Gabert wrote: Hi Linus, hi LKML, i would like to thank LKML and especially Eric (thanks for the

Re: [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5

2007-06-24 Thread Alexander Gabert
Hi Linus, hi LKML, i would like to thank LKML and especially Eric (thanks for the per_cpu macro tips and design guidelines!) and the other contributors to this idea. This time the patch is rather big because it also removes get_random_int() and introduces get_random_long() throughout the kern

[PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5

2007-06-20 Thread Alexander Gabert
: get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY support for auxv NAME: Alexander Gabert EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru linux-2.6.21.5.ORIG/drivers/char/random.c linux-2.6.21.5/drivers/char/random.c --- linux-2.6.21.5.ORIG/drivers/char/random.c2007-06-11 20:37:06.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.21.5

Re: AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h

2007-06-18 Thread Alexander Gabert
Arjan van de Ven schrieb: Hence the config option for the kernel- it's philosophy at Gentoo to make choices available to users how they want their systems to behave, even on the expense of added complexity and need to "understand" how things work in the first place. While I am not oppose

Re: AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h

2007-06-17 Thread Alexander Gabert
Arjan van de Ven schrieb: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 01:40 +0200, Alexander Gabert wrote: Hello glibc and kernel maintainers, could you please add two AT_ entries to include/linux/auxvec.h in the upstream kernel and the respective elf/elf.h definitions in glibc. while I'm not p

AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h

2007-06-17 Thread Alexander Gabert
Hello glibc and kernel maintainers, could you please add two AT_ entries to include/linux/auxvec.h in the upstream kernel and the respective elf/elf.h definitions in glibc. #define AT_ENTROPY1 24 /* kernel entropy in auxiliary vector */ #define AT_ENTROPY2 25 /* second field for kernel ent