Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 16:16:14 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
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Chris Peterson wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this thread's conclusions seem to be: > > * network interrupts are an inappropriate source of entropy (see my patch) > * headless servers need entropy, but should seek a better solution, > such as EGD, hardware RNG, or other kernel entropy sources (but that > is a separate task) > * TPM RNG is a separate task and, if implemented, should be in > drivers/char/hw_random/
That's my own opinion, yes. But not necessarily a consensus opinion :)
Jeff
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