Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 21:46:12 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
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On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:39:33 -0400 lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:04:45PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > So open /dev/urandom in that case. It's a user space problem - this is > > policy. > > How does user space know? Maybe someone is using the serial console, > maybe not.
How does the kernel know - it has even less useful policy information ?
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