From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:10:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20080516161029.44ded734@core> References: <20080515142154.0595e475@core> <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F52052D71BB@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , "Kok, Auke" , Rick Jones , "Brandeburg, Jesse" , Chris Peterson , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Return-path: Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:43148 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751104AbYEPPWR (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 11:22:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080516132107.GA11304@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > receives no input. While ethernet might not be preferable if you have > something else, sometimes you really don't have anything else. Ethernet is observable so ethernet isn't entropy. There is no "anything else" here -> there is no *anything*