From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/22] /dev/random: remove broken resizing sysctl
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:53:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040326035331.GD8366@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040325161523.3efbb4b7.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:15:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> >
> > /dev/random remove broken resizing sysctl
>
> This could break things. Shouldn't we leave the /proc entry there
> and print a friendly message in the sysctl handler?
I could do that, yes. I would be really surprised if there were any
users, however.
--
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-25 23:57 [PATCH 0/22] /dev/random: Assorted fixes and cleanups Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 1/22] /dev/random: Simplify entropy debugging Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 2/22] /dev/random: Cleanup sleep logic Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 3/22] /dev/random: remove broken resizing sysctl Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 4/22] /dev/random: remove outdated RNDGETPOOL ioctl Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 5/22] /dev/random: pool struct cleanup and rename Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 6/22] /dev/random: simplify pool initialization Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 7/22] /dev/random: simplify reseed logic Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 8/22] /dev/random: BUG on premature random users Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 9/22] /dev/random: more robust catastrophic reseed logic Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 10/22] /dev/random: entropy reserve logic for starvation preve Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 11/22] /dev/random: flag pools that need entropy reserve Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 12/22] /dev/random: add pool for /dev/urandom to prevent starv Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 13/22] /dev/random: kill extract_timer_state Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 14/22] /dev/random: kill unused md5 copy Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 15/22] /dev/random: kill unrolled SHA code Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 16/22] /dev/random: kill 2.2 cruft Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 17/22] /dev/random: minor shrinkage Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 18/22] /dev/random: bitop cleanup Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 19/22] /dev/random: use sched_clock for timing data Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 20/22] /dev/random: cleanup rol bitop Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 21/22] /dev/random: kill batching of entropy mixing Matt Mackall
2004-03-25 23:57 ` [PATCH 22/22] /dev/random: update credits Matt Mackall
2004-03-27 13:52 ` [PATCH 21/22] /dev/random: kill batching of entropy mixing Jamie Lokier
2004-03-27 15:17 ` Matt Mackall
2004-03-26 1:43 ` [PATCH 15/22] /dev/random: kill unrolled SHA code Jeff Garzik
2004-03-26 3:59 ` Matt Mackall
2004-03-27 13:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 4/22] /dev/random: remove outdated RNDGETPOOL ioctl Andrew Morton
2004-03-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 3/22] /dev/random: remove broken resizing sysctl Andrew Morton
2004-03-26 3:53 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-03-26 0:14 ` [PATCH 2/22] /dev/random: Cleanup sleep logic Andrew Morton
2004-03-26 3:49 ` Matt Mackall
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