[RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

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On 9 May 2006, at 21:25, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

>> +	memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, info->mac, ETH_ALEN);
>> +	network_connect(netdev);
>> +	info->irq = bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler(
>> +		info->evtchn, netif_int, SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM,
>> netdev->name,
>>
>
> This doesn't look like a real random entropy source. packets
> arriving from another domain are easily timed.

Where should we get our entropy from in a VM environment? Leaving the 
pool empty can cause processes to hang.

  -- Keir


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