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 21:46:12 +0100

On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:39:33 -0400
[email-masked] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:04:45PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So open /dev/urandom in that case. It's a user space problem - this is
> > policy.
> 
> How does user space know?  Maybe someone is using the serial console,
> maybe not.

How does the kernel know - it has even less useful policy information ?