- 2.6.6 - cpqarray.c - trivial

Hello,

I just upgrade my Compaq Prolient Server to 2.6.x. This system is mostly a http server and does not have a keyboard or mouse attached. This system hangs on reboot, when generating SSL keys due to /dev/random having zero entropy.

It is my understanding that /dev/random uses the keyboard, mouse and block devices to generate entropy. Since this system does not have a keyboard or mouse, I am having to rely upon the cpqarray (block) driver for entropy. It appears that in the 2.4.x kernel somebody added the SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag to request_irq() in cpqarray.c to fix this problem. Below is a patch against 2.6.6, which corrects this issue.

Best Regards,

--George

@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
        }
        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]))
+               SA_INTERRUPT|SA_SHIRQ|SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM, hba[i]->devname, hba[i]))
        {
                printk(KERN_ERR "cpqarray: Unable to get irq %d for %s\n",
                                hba[i]->intr, hba[i]->devname);