Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 09:21:07 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:21:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > "no other form of entropy"? See examples in this thread.
So where does one get entropy if not the ethernet adapter on many embedded systems? If you have no mouse, no keyboard, no hardware number generator, just ethernet ports and a serial console that usually receives no input. While ethernet might not be preferable if you have something else, sometimes you really don't have anything else.
-- Len Sorensen
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