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SubjectRe: randomness - compaq smart array driver
Yes, I've been using the netdev patches for months.  Aside from the
unrelated entropy exhaustion bug, his patches are stable (and optional)
and help on diskless or low-I/O machines. 2.4 or 2.5 anyone? :)
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Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:58:37PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
| On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Proescholdt, timo wrote:
|
| > I noticed that the installation fails due to missing randomness.
| > I can confirm that as cat /dev/random does not provide any output.
| [...]
| > I heard that there is a patch for 2.2.x kernels, wich deals with this
| > topic , but i cannot find this patch anywere .
| > Is there a similar patch for 2.4.x kernels?
|
| Robert Love did a patch to let network devices contribute to the random
| pool. Look at
| ftp://www.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/netdev-random/
| or
| http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
|
| Tim
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