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

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:43:10 -0400

Chris Peterson wrote:
> Remove network drivers' last few uses of theoretically-exploitable network
> entropy. Only 12 net drivers are affected. Headless boxes should use a
> more secure source of entropy, such as userspace daemons like rngd, 
> clrngd, audio_entropyd, and/or video_entroyd.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson <[email-masked]>

For what it's worth...  I'm keeping this patch in my 'hold' queue, 
mainly to see if anyone really puts up some major objections, or fuss.

I'm leaning towards applying it for 2.6.27...

	Jeff