linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 00:17:29 -0700
From:	Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few 
	uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

> The future model will continue to sample network
> devices on theory that they -might- be less than 100% observable and
> that can only increase our total (unmeasurable) amount of entropy.

That sounds reasonable to me. So should all net drivers now specify
IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM?

Or even simpler: could request_irq() assume IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM for any
interrupt that is not (say) IRQF_IRQPOLL or IRQF_PERCPU?

chris
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