Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 18 May 2008 12:59:06 +0200 | | From | Matthias Andree <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM | |
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Kok, Auke wrote:
> I remember Jesse telling that he had this very same experience while installing a
> RH box on a headless system with a serial console - a box prompted the user to
> rattle a keyboard in order for the ssh key generation to continue :)
>
> you absolutely don't want to use urandom for that I assume, but if the system just
> sits dead waiting for randomness, and you can't see the popup asking for some
> entropy, you're pretty much screwed :)
If the distro goofs up the headless installation mode, what is the
kernel's part of the fault? I see none.
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Matthias Andree
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