Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:08:31 -0700 | | From | Tom Rini <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) |
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 07:26:34PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:29:51PM +0100, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote: > > The machine was bought and tested in one config. A hardware > > random number generator is something else to go wrong, and > > additional expense. > > And making a change to the kernel is not a different config?
In the very strict QA'ing sense, yes. Any sort of change whatsoever is a different config and throws out all of the other testing results. Which still leaves the cost argument in this case. But, there are degrees of how dangerous a change can be. From my quick skimming of this code, it looks like the only changes are to mark network irq bits as possible entropy. Nothing more. I could be totally wrong of course. :) Therefore, it's quite probable anyhow that this config won't have any more problems that the other config had. Of course the only way to prove this is much QA'ing. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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