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

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From: Kok, Auke
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 - 11:40 am

Alan Cox 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 :)

Auke

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RE: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Brandeburg, Jesse, (Thu May 15, 9:07 am)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu May 15, 3:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu May 15, 4:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu May 15, 4:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu May 15, 4:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri May 16, 6:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri May 16, 7:15 am)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri May 16, 10:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Kok, Auke, (Fri May 16, 11:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri May 16, 11:41 am)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri May 16, 11:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri May 16, 1:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Alejandro Riveira , (Mon May 26, 6:43 am)
Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few ..., Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 26, 2:07 pm)