From 28a31860191c0d5710d42f85510daac0a3c26a01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:06:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] sky2: not random enough Don't use sky2 to seed random pool beacause the network packet arrival time will not be truly random due to NAPI and interrupt mitigation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- drivers/net/sky2.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c index 72c1630..dc4feaf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c +++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c @@ -3243,8 +3243,7 @@ static int __devinit sky2_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, } } - err = request_irq(pdev->irq, sky2_intr, SA_SHIRQ | SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM, - DRV_NAME, hw); + err = request_irq(pdev->irq, sky2_intr, SA_SHIRQ, DRV_NAME, hw); if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR PFX "%s: cannot assign irq %d\n", pci_name(pdev), pdev->irq); -- 2.7.4