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

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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2008 22:34:12 +0200
From:	Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> If they don't need that level of security they can use /dev/urandom.
> Piping network randomness into /dev/urandom is probably quite sensible
> but not into /dev/random.

Perhaps it would be possible to make most types of interrupts add
entropy, but not credit any entropy?


/Benny


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