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authorRobin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>2009-06-17 16:25:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-18 13:03:40 -0700
commit9d9b8fb0e5ebf4b0398e579f6061d4451fea3242 (patch)
treea61dbc130791488854501cb731b92df8aee84856 /Documentation
parentaa0ce5bbc2dbb1853bd0c6d13f17716fcc38ac5a (diff)
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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 7129846a278..8d07ed31207 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,20 @@ be removed from this file.
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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