HEADS DOWN: via padlock possibly broken on master

Chris Turner c.turner at 199technologies.com
Sat Jun 18 14:08:15 PDT 2011


On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 01:29:21AM +0100, Alex Hornung wrote:
> I added
> support to make use of Via's on-chip RNG, but someone needs to test it
> to confirm that it works as expected; I don't have a VIA CPU for testing.

As someone recently bit by a similar type of issue ( rum(4) not being
up-ported for new wifi stuff) this seems like a bad idea -

If the code is untested and not 'core' -- why not commit it with some
kind of 'options' guard or somesuch until someone is able to test, etc?

</2c>

- Chris






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