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

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 18:44:22 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
CC:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>,
	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of
 IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> If anyone wants to poke at it, get the Debian rng-tools source package.
> It directly supports the VIA PadLock in userspace in a suitably paranoid
> mode (checks that the RNG was not reprogrammed at every read), and does
> multithreading so that FIPS and output processing does not block (nor
> gets blocked) by /dev/hw_random reading, etc.


Neat.  I always did prefer VIA padlock in userspace.

I just sorta assumed a buffering, interrupt-driver TPM RNG driver would 
be better than doing it from userspace, but maybe that was a bad 
assumption to make on my part.  It should be quite doable to support TPM 
RNG entirely via userspace, at any rate.

	Jeff


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