From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758082AbYFNJn3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:43:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755937AbYFNJnQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:43:16 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38184 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755886AbYFNJnO (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:43:14 -0400 Message-ID: <485392AE.7020501@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:43:10 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Peterson CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Peterson wrote: > Remove network drivers' last few uses of theoretically-exploitable network > entropy. Only 12 net drivers are affected. Headless boxes should use a > more secure source of entropy, such as userspace daemons like rngd, > clrngd, audio_entropyd, and/or video_entroyd. > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson For what it's worth... I'm keeping this patch in my 'hold' queue, mainly to see if anyone really puts up some major objections, or fuss. I'm leaning towards applying it for 2.6.27... Jeff