On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 1) We dont believe its Janitor material ;) > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/680723 > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2009/4/6/5417754 > I wasn't aware of this discussion. In one hand network drivers are not a good source of entropy because they can be controlled externally, but in embedded systems with only network cards (no video, audio, keyboard, etc) the only source of entropy they have is their network cards (at the kernel level i.e: not using EGD to feed /dev/random). Yes this definitely is not janitor material :) I just sent the patch because I saw IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. I can resend a patch removing the macro in the remaining network cards if the decision is to remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM. Best regards, ----------------------------------------- Javier MartÃnez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 PhD Student in High Performance Computing Computer Architecture and Operating System Department (CAOS) Universitat AutÃnoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
