Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750982AbWEFR32 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 13:29:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750967AbWEFR32 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 13:29:28 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:55959 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbWEFR31 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 13:29:27 -0400 From: be-news06@lina.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers Organization: Private Site running Debian GNU/Linux In-Reply-To: <20060506164808.GY15445@waste.org> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.13.4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 19:29:25 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 20 Matt Mackall wrote: >> So I would much prefer to see the entropy sampling stay in its current >> location, since people using real-time deserve real randomness too. >> (In fact, some of them may have a **much** stronger need for it. :-) > > This is the point that bothers me. It's one thing to optimistically > mix network samples (or any other convenient source) into the entropy > pool. I'm all for that. The more, the better. Isnt it possible to use timestamps on the received packages. So you get the indeterministic timing from interrupt context and can process it in a less hot path. Also the timestamps are helpfull for other stuff, also. Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/