Re: [PATCH] rand.c updates from FreeBSD RELENG_5

["William M. Grim" <wgrim@xxxxxxxx>]

Hiten Pandya wrote:
> William M. Grim wrote:
>
> > > If you're porting code from 5.x to a 4.x-based OS like DF, you need to
> > > take care because of the different semantics of the /dev/random driver
> > > interface.  OTOH it may make sense for you to port the 5.x /dev/random
> > > driver itself, because it has much better properties including better
> > > entropy gathering and better robustness against entropy starvation.
> > >
> > > Kris
> >
> >
> > I'm not very knowledgable of the code base as a whole, yet.  So, I see 
> > what you're saying, to an extent.
> >
> > I think what I've done so far would be good enough to go into DFly, 
> > pending approval from the community.  Also, beyond this, I would be 
> > happy to port the /dev/random driver over to DFly.  I can start working 
>
>
>     Not to scare you, but there are a lot of changes you will
>     need to pull in for updating the random interface in DFly
>     because of the major differences, stuff like the new TSC
>     interface, bintime equivalent and various other functions.   
>
>         -Hiten
>         hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

He he, that's ok.  I've had to do large straight-forward changes to 
other proprietary products.  I'll try to attack this in much the same 
way I attacked the other problems.  :-D

--Mike