From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] random: use device attach events for entropy
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:44:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131103184407.GA7376@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131103145118.GD2007@kroah.com>
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 06:51:18AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Is it an issue that dev->devt will almost always be 0,0 for this
> function call? Why not use the name instead here, that's more "unique"
> and every device has one, not just a tiny %.
Hmm, good point. Thanks for raising it. I'll make this change and
respin the patches.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-03 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-03 13:33 [PATCH 0/4] random: improve entropy pool initialization at boot time Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-03 13:33 ` [PATCH 1/4] random: use device attach events for entropy Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-03 14:51 ` Greg KH
2013-11-03 18:44 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2013-11-03 23:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-03 13:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] random: make add_timer_randomness() fill the nonblocking pool first Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-03 13:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] random: printk notifications for urandom pool initialization Theodore Ts'o
2013-11-03 13:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] random: don't zap entropy count in rand_initialize() Theodore Ts'o
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