Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:05:40 -0600 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Let DAC960 supply entropy to random pool |
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:44:38PM +0100, Anders K. Pedersen wrote: > Hello, > > We have a couple of servers with Mylex RAID controllers (handled by the > DAC960 block device driver). There's normally no keyboard or mouse > attached, and neither the DAC960 nor the NIC driver (e100) provides > entropy to the random pool, so it was impossible to get any data from > /dev/random.
Doesn't the add_disk_randomness call in ll_rw_blk.c suffice? This is the proper path for disks to add entropy.
I intend to kill the SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM path. It's part of a fast path and all of its users are bogus.
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