Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel, gmane.linux.network
Date: 2008-05-15 13:21:54 GMT (1 year, 7 weeks, 23 hours and 33 minutes ago)
On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Chris Peterson <cpeterso <at> cpeterso.com> 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