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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
> So what is one to do if a few applications want to read from /dev/random
> but you have no excellent source of entropy on the system? Wait
> forever?

Yes.

If they don't need that level of security they can use /dev/urandom.
Piping network randomness into /dev/urandom is probably quite sensible
but not into /dev/random.

Alan


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