On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:16:16AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Saturday 06 May 2006 4:07 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Friday 05 May 2006 19:42, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from USB gadget drivers
>
> It's conventional to post USB patches to linux-usb-devel, or at least
> to CC that list.
>
>
> > > There's no a priori reason to think that USB device interrupts will
> > > contain "entropy" as defined/required by /dev/random. In fact, most
> > > operations will be streaming and bandwidth- or CPU-limited.
> > > /dev/random needs unpredictable inputs such as human interaction or
> > > chaotic physical processes like turbulence manifested in disk seek
> > > times.
>
> And that'd be why you removed that SAMPLE_RANDOM from the Lubbock VBUS
> irqs ... which come from users connecting (by hand!) a USB cable. :)
Really I removed it because I want SAMPLE_RANDOM to go away and most
of the users were either pretty trivial (the Lubbock case), wrong (a
bunch of block devices, etc), or suspect (network, i2c).
> You shouldn't add spaces before labels, or change indents from
> pure-tab to tabs-plus-four-spaces.
Show me where I did that, please.
> Admittedly OMAP _now_ has access to the FIPS-certified hardware RNG,
> so for that platform it's hard to justify needing other entropy sources.
> But on the other hand, DMA completion IRQs aren't exactly predictable
> either, and it doesn't necessarily hurt to salt a high entropy pool
> with some less-high entropy inputs.
The sampling is fine. It's the _accounting_ that's at issue.
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