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    SubjectRe: [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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