Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

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* Stephen Hemminger ([email protected]) wrote:
> > +	info->irq = bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler(
> > +		info->evtchn, netif_int, SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM,
> > netdev->name,
> 
> This doesn't look like a real random entropy source. packets
> arriving from another domain are easily timed.

Heh, given the path they take, that sadly may not be the case ;-)
But point well-taken, that's easy to drop.

thanks,
-chris
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