Alan Cox wrote:we've been hearing rumblings of big customers wanting (maybe requiring) wired network drivers from Intel to advertise this flag. Jeff have you heard of such? I think the argument is that a headless system (no keyboard/mouse, no soundcard, probably no video) with a libata based driver and a network driver without IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM has *no* sources of entropy. In this case the argument is very strong for at least *some* source of entropy from interrupts so that randomness can get some external input. Just try rebuilding a kernel RPM over an ssh session and you'll see what I mean. In short, I agree with Alan's IRQF_SAMPLE_DUBIOUS, and know of Linux customers who also want the same. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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