Re: [PATCH] Let DAC960 supply entropy to random pool

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:44:38PM +0100, Anders K. Pedersen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a couple of servers with Mylex RAID controllers (handled by the
> DAC960 block device driver). There's normally no keyboard or mouse
> attached, and neither the DAC960 nor the NIC driver (e100) provides
> entropy to the random pool, so it was impossible to get any data from
> /dev/random.

Doesn't the add_disk_randomness call in ll_rw_blk.c suffice? This is
the proper path for disks to add entropy.

I intend to kill the SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM path. It's part of a fast path
and all of its users are bogus.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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