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

From: Bill Fink <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:52:27 -0400

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> Bill Fink <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Another idea that occured to me:  How about using the low order bits
> > of the instruction memory address being executed that was interrupted
> > by the HZ timer interrupt.
> 
> Think of constant-instructions-length processors :-)

I'm not sure what you're driving at, but if it's that you shouldn't
use the very last 2 or 3 bits, then sure those should be excluded.
But that still leaves 9 or 10 bits at least in the page offset, and
that's being conservative in the number of address bits to sample.

						-Bill