Commit 9d9b8fb0 authored Jun 17, 2009 by Robin Getz Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 18, 2009

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>

parent aa0ce5bb

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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		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