From: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 00:17:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a24804730905130017t545b7645x71ab7a1c8ab4af78@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090513060850.GZ31071@waste.org>
> The future model will continue to sample network
> devices on theory that they -might- be less than 100% observable and
> that can only increase our total (unmeasurable) amount of entropy.
That sounds reasonable to me. So should all net drivers now specify
IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM?
Or even simpler: could request_irq() assume IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM for any
interrupt that is not (say) IRQF_IRQPOLL or IRQF_PERCPU?
chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-13 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-13 5:34 [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Chris Peterson
2009-05-13 6:08 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-13 7:17 ` Chris Peterson [this message]
2009-05-13 14:25 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-13 19:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-05-13 19:55 ` Matt Mackall
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2008-06-14 5:48 Chris Peterson
2008-06-14 9:43 ` Jeff Garzik
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2008-05-29 12:41 ` Martin Wilck
2008-05-29 6:23 Chris Peterson
2008-05-29 10:49 ` Alan Cox
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