From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753569AbYEONdS (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 09:33:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751685AbYEONc4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 09:32:56 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:55975 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757404AbYEONct (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 09:32:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:21:54 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Chris Peterson Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Message-ID: <20080515142154.0595e475@core> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Chris Peterson wrote: > > I know Jeff Garzik says he's not interested in an anti-entropy pogrom for existing net drivers, but here is the patch if anyone else is interested..? :) > > Only 12 net drivers are affected, the last of the theoretically-exploitable network entropy. Looks fine to me. If Jeff doesn't want to touch them then send them direct to Andrew/Linus. A more interesting alternative might be to mark things like network drivers with a new flag say IRQF_SAMPLE_DUBIOUS so that users can be given a switch to enable/disable their use depending upon the environment. Alan