From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754058AbYERK7i (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2008 06:59:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752705AbYERK71 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2008 06:59:27 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:54351 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752549AbYERK7L (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2008 06:59:11 -0400 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19ThKsswG1TVHtOHYIw2nC9S3S5anG+dIEIUHiYMH vy0wU177dp80qT Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 12:59:06 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Message-ID: <20080518105906.GC9845@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <482C7B18.6060003@garzik.org> <482C7E53.3050300@hp.com> <482C8184.2030906@garzik.org> <482C8550.5000909@intel.com> <482C8D4D.3040702@garzik.org> <20080516132107.GA11304@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20080516161029.44ded734@core> <20080516173610.GA27126@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20080516191125.46f59ad6@core> <482DD50C.2070601@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <482DD50C.2070601@intel.com> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 16 May 2008, Kok, Auke 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 :) If the distro goofs up the headless installation mode, what is the kernel's part of the fault? I see none. -- Matthias Andree