Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 21:55:20 -0700 | From | "Chris Peterson" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
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> 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.
If there was an IRQF_SAMPLE_DUBIOUS or IRQF_SAMPLE_URANDOM for network device IRQs to feed /dev/urandom, are there any other IRQs that should use it instead of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM?
From a cursory search, it seems like:
* network drivers could use IRQF_SAMPLE_URANDOM * all (?) other device drivers could use IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM * and timer IRQs should not use either?
chris
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