Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

From: Benny Amorsen
Date: Fri May 16 2008 - 16:35:23 EST


Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Perhaps it would be possible to make most types of interrupts add
entropy, but not credit any entropy?


/Benny


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