From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/4] /dev/random: Add pool name to entropy store
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:17:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040824211716.GG5414@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1By1Sm-0001TM-V7@thunk.org>
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:57:16AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
> This adds a pool name to the entropy_store data structure, which
> simplifies the debugging code, and makes the code more generic for
> adding additional entropy pools.
My version from last year called these "input", "blocking", and
"nonblocking", which I think added substantially to the readability
here.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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2004-08-20 4:57 [PATCH] [2/4] /dev/random: Add pool name to entropy store Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-24 21:17 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
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