netdev - Re: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question...

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Message-Id: <1239296459.31467.142.camel@calx>
Date:	Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:00:59 -0700
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>
Subject: Re: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question...

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 09:54 -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
> On Wed 8 Apr 2009 15:51, Matt Mackall pondered:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:44 -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
> > > Is that "Everything in general, with a few exceptions", or
> > > "__Everything__"?
> > 
> > Everything. We want every input point to better document the type of
> > entropy source.
> 
> OK - any objections to something like this?

Hmm, this is a purely internal interface. Not sure if we need to bother
with scheduling it. My plan was to simply get the new code in and sweep
the kernel. 

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