Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

From: Alan Cox <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 19:11:25 +0100

> 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