Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 May 2009 00:17:29 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM | From | Chris Peterson <> |
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> The future model will continue to sample network > devices on theory that they -might- be less than 100% observable and > that can only increase our total (unmeasurable) amount of entropy.
That sounds reasonable to me. So should all net drivers now specify IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM?
Or even simpler: could request_irq() assume IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM for any interrupt that is not (say) IRQF_IRQPOLL or IRQF_PERCPU?
chris
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