From: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>
To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Cc: "Proescholdt, timo" <Timo.Proescholdt@brk-muenchen.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: randomness - compaq smart array driver
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:14:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020213071445.A20717@asooo.flowerfire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410B51F29EA8D3118EE400508B44AE2B3C6FB3@RZ_NT_MAIL> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202111754560.5685-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202111754560.5685-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>; from tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:58:37PM +0100
Yes, I've been using the netdev patches for months. Aside from the
unrelated entropy exhaustion bug, his patches are stable (and optional)
and help on diskless or low-I/O machines. 2.4 or 2.5 anyone? :)
--
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:58:37PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
| On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Proescholdt, timo wrote:
|
| > I noticed that the installation fails due to missing randomness.
| > I can confirm that as cat /dev/random does not provide any output.
| [...]
| > I heard that there is a patch for 2.2.x kernels, wich deals with this
| > topic , but i cannot find this patch anywere .
| > Is there a similar patch for 2.4.x kernels?
|
| Robert Love did a patch to let network devices contribute to the random
| pool. Look at
| ftp://www.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/netdev-random/
| or
| http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
|
| Tim
|
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-13 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-11 15:00 Proescholdt, timo
2002-02-11 16:58 ` Tim Schmielau
2002-02-13 13:14 ` Ken Brownfield [this message]
2002-02-13 15:08 ` Sean Hunter
2002-02-13 15:49 ` Chris Friesen
2002-02-11 17:41 Stephen Cameron
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