From: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/17] pda_power: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:56:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120718045609.GA29357@lizard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120718041820.GA21747@thunk.org>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:18:20AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:00:09PM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 05:32:23PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
> > > no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
> > > low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
> > > flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
> > > feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
> > > removal of this flag.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> > > Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
> > > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> > > ---
> >
> > Applied, thanks!
>
> My original plan was to carry the patch in the random.git tree, so
> that it only gets applied after the new random interrupt sampling
> commit has gone in. If you carry it in your tree, then the
> /dev/random seeding for your platform will be worse until the
> random.git tree is merged in.....
Oh, I see. OK, dropped.
Thanks,
--
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-18 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-17 21:32 [PATCH 00/17] Extirpate IRQF_SAMPLE_REMOVE from the kernel Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 01/17] mfd: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 02/17] input/serio/hp_sdc.c: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-18 6:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-07-18 17:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 03/17] i2c-pmcmsp: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 04/17] pda_power: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-18 4:00 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-18 4:18 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-18 4:56 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 05/17] n2_crypto: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-18 0:48 ` Herbert Xu
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 06/17] xen-blkfront: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-19 19:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 07/17] drivers: hv: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-18 13:14 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 08/17] uartlite: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-18 4:41 ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 09/17] goku_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which was commented out Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 10/17] omap_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 11/17] pxa25x_udc: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-19 3:07 ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 12/17] isp1301_omap: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 13/17] board-palmz71: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 14/17] [ARM] pxa: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-19 3:08 ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 15/17] sparc/ldc: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 22:06 ` David Miller
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 16/17] um: " Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 17/17] random: final removal of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Theodore Ts'o
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