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.comOn 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 | | - | To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in | the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org | More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html | Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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