Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:56:09 -0700 | From | Anton Vorontsov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/17] pda_power: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op |
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:18:20AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:00:09PM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 05:32:23PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a > > > no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very > > > low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM > > > flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the > > > feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final > > > removal of this flag. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> > > > Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> > > > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> > > > --- > > > > Applied, thanks! > > My original plan was to carry the patch in the random.git tree, so > that it only gets applied after the new random interrupt sampling > commit has gone in. If you carry it in your tree, then the > /dev/random seeding for your platform will be worse until the > random.git tree is merged in.....
Oh, I see. OK, dropped.
Thanks,
-- Anton Vorontsov Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
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