Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932344AbWEHHBi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 03:01:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932351AbWEHHBi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 03:01:38 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:46093 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932344AbWEHHBi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 03:01:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 06:26:05 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Matt Mackall Cc: "David S. Miller" , tytso@mit.edu, mrmacman_g4@mac.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers Message-ID: <20060508062604.GD5765@ucw.cz> References: <20060505203436.GW15445@waste.org> <20060506115502.GB18880@thunk.org> <20060506164808.GY15445@waste.org> <20060506.170810.74552888.davem@davemloft.net> <20060507045920.GH15445@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060507045920.GH15445@waste.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 21 Hi! > Then I'll run my test on one of the various arches where HZ=~100 and > we don't have a TSC. Like Sparc? > > /* XXX Maybe do something better at some point... -DaveM */ > typedef unsigned long cycles_t; > #define get_cycles() (0) Seems like sparc32 is broken :-(, and probably broken terminally... there are very little randomness sources that can handle 10msec sampling period :-(. Maybe we should disable /dev/random on sparc32? -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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/