From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752559Ab2GRE6S (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:58:18 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:64697 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751488Ab2GRE6L (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:58:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:56:09 -0700 From: Anton Vorontsov To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Linux Kernel Developers List , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/17] pda_power: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op Message-ID: <20120718045609.GA29357@lizard> References: <1342560756-18737-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1342560756-18737-5-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <20120718040008.GA22599@lizard> <20120718041820.GA21747@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120718041820.GA21747@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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" > > > Cc: Anton Vorontsov > > > Cc: David Woodhouse > > > --- > > > > 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