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

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:21:49 -0400

Kok, Auke wrote:
> How about the non-NAPI and non-throttled case? I would argue that without any irq
> mitigation we can still use SA_RANDOM. Many (e.g. embedded) devices will want some

When was the last time we added a new driver for new hardware, and it 
didn't support NAPI and/or hw mitigation?  They are few and far between, 
and getting ever more rare.

> extra form of entropy, and providing them it in this form will be very beneficial
> as these devices more commonly have no other form of entropy anymore.

"no other form of entropy"?   See examples in this thread.

	Jeff