RE: Hooks for random device entropy generation missing incpqarray.c

From: Manon Goo (manon@manon.de)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 16:49:42 EST


I have not tried your patch. but this is in cpqarray_init() and it is only
called when the driver is initilaized.
How is the entropy-pool further updated ?

Thanks

Manon

--On Mittwoch, 20. März 2002 15:37 Uhr -0600 "Cameron, Steve"
<Steve.Cameron@COMPAQ.com> wrote:

>
>> excuse me I am using 2.4.18
>>
>
> Ok. If SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM is not in
> the call to request_irq, you can put
> it in. A trivial (but untested) patch:
> (if outlook doesn't mangle it)
>
> -- steve
>
> --- cpqarray.c.orig Wed Mar 20 15:25:51 2002
> +++ cpqarray.c Wed Mar 20 15:26:30 2002
> @@ -516,8 +516,9 @@
>
>
> hba[i]->access.set_intr_mask(hba[i], 0);
> - if (request_irq(hba[i]->intr, do_ida_intr,
> - SA_INTERRUPT|SA_SHIRQ, hba[i]->devname, hba[i]))
> + if (request_irq(hba[i]->intr, do_ida_intr,
> + SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM|SA_INTERRUPT|SA_SHIRQ,
> + hba[i]->devname, hba[i]))
> {
>
> printk(KERN_ERR "cpqarray: Unable to get irq %d for %s\n",
>
>



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