linux-next: Tree for July 17 (mfd: AB3100 - ab3100_probe: undefined reference to `rand_initialize_irq')

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Jul 17 14:40:54 EDT 2012


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...looks like AB3100 is the *only* driver still using rand_initialize_irq()...
>>
>> drivers/mfd/ab3100-core.c:939:  rand_initialize_irq(client->irq);
>>
>> ...but why has random.h still this...?
>>
>> include/linux/random.h:51:extern void rand_initialize_irq(int irq);
>>
>> Just thinking "loud"...
>>
>> - Sedat -
>
> Is this attached patch OK, Ted?

You're just deleting a line from the AB3100 driver, so I guess you're
regressing the system since that IRQ will no longer contribute
to the entropy pool?

How do we simultaneously make sure that this IRQ is still
contributing to the entropy?

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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