[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC PATCH] ath9k: enable hardware random number generator.

Rui Salvaterra rsalvaterra at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 08:39:37 EST 2020


Ah, silly me, you're absolutely right. This is just half the patch, and
it's perfectly fine the way it is, so I'm not enabling anything new, just
exposing the existing kconfig. Please ignore my previous email.

Thanks,
Rui

A domingo, 1/03/2020, 13:34, Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Hi, Petr! Writing from my phone, pardon the terseness (and HTML crap).
>
> A domingo, 1/03/2020, 13:06, Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> escreveu:
>
>> Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra at gmail.com> [2020-01-27 18:19:46]:
>>
>> why is this RFC, are there any gotchas?
>>
>
> This has only been thoroughly tested on AR9003 and AR9002 hardware. I just
> received an AR5008 card to test, but I'm on holidays at the moment, so I'll
> only test it after Tuesday.
>
> BTW that `enable` in commit subject is probably misleading, because you're
>> just improving the support for hwrng, you're not enabling anything.
>>
>
> I'm enabling kthread-based entropy collection on AR5008+ hardware, which
> hasn't been enabled before (only AR9003 was supported). Does it make sense
> this way?
>
> Thanks,
> Rui
>
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