Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-16 18:23:21
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So what is one to do if a few applications want to read from /dev/random but you have no excellent source of entropy on the system? Wait forever?
Yes. If they don't need that level of security they can use /dev/urandom. Piping network randomness into /dev/urandom is probably quite sensible but not into /dev/random. Alan