From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com>
Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question...
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:27:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1239330439.3342.2.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a24804730904091829k167668f1y6e546693b2f8e5da@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 18:29 -0700, Chris Peterson wrote:
> > Hmm, this is a purely internal interface. Not sure if we need to bother
> > with scheduling it. My plan was to simply get the new code in and sweep
> > the kernel.
>
> Matt, sounds like you're volunteering? :)
>
> >From my understanding, the roadmap looks something like:
>
> 1. Add checkpatch warning about IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
> 2. Add any new add_*_randomness() functions (e.g. RTC and main clocks?
> Serial or USB interrupts?)
> 3. Remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM macro (and checkpatch warning)
> 4. Add "pragmatic entropy accounting model"?
Yeah, I just sat down with Ted Tso this evening and hashed out a new
design. More to come.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-10 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 18:30 IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question Robin Getz
2009-04-06 18:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-06 18:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-06 18:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 8:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-06 19:22 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-06 19:00 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-06 19:01 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-06 22:09 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2009-04-06 23:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 21:58 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-07 22:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 0:16 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-07 0:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 11:16 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-07 14:57 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-07 21:39 ` Chris Peterson
2009-04-07 22:30 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-08 21:53 ` Gilles Espinasse
2009-04-08 23:16 ` Chris Friesen
2009-04-09 4:24 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-07 21:44 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-08 19:51 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-09 13:54 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-09 17:00 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-10 0:41 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-10 1:29 ` Chris Peterson
2009-04-10 2:27 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
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