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

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Message-ID: <20080516161029.44ded734@core>
Date:	Fri, 16 May 2008 16:10:29 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>,
	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of
 IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

> receives no input.  While ethernet might not be preferable if you have
> something else, sometimes you really don't have anything else.

Ethernet is observable so ethernet isn't entropy. There is no "anything
else" here -> there is no *anything*
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