From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:06:35 +0000 (-0800) Subject: sky2: not random enough X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc6~6^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=28a31860191c0d5710d42f85510daac0a3c26a01;p=linux-2.6 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 --- diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c index 72c1630977..dc4feaf79b 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);