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| author | Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> | 2009-06-18 01:25:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-18 22:03:40 +0200 |
| commit | 9d9b8fb0e5ebf4b0398e579f6061d4451fea3242 (patch) | |
| tree | a61dbc130791488854501cb731b92df8aee84856 /Documentation | |
| parent | softirq: introduce statistics for softirq (diff) | |
| download | linux-9d9b8fb0e5ebf4b0398e579f6061d4451fea3242.tar.xz linux-9d9b8fb0e5ebf4b0398e579f6061d4451fea3242.zip | |
irqs: add IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM to the feature-removal-schedule.txt (deprecated) list
This adds IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM to the feature-removal (deprecated) list
since most of the IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM users are technically bogus as
entropy sources in the kernel's current entropy model.
This was discussed on the lkml the past few days, which started here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/6/283
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 7129846a2785..8d07ed31207e 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,20 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM +Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM +When: July 2009 + +Why: Many of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM users are technically bogus as entropy + sources in the kernel's current entropy model. To resolve this, every + input point to the kernel's entropy pool needs to better document the + type of entropy source it actually is. This will be replaced with + additional add_*_randomness functions in drivers/char/random.c + +Who: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> & Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> + +--------------------------- + What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter When: March 2010 / desktop catchup |