From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>,
Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>,
Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>,
Steve Wise <swise@chelsio.com>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 09/26] infiniband: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:33:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E8B85F.9030605@opengridcomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC5umyjpA4_J-1RRv0O72GiPW5O6-1b+dypg746vOphEkpKyYw@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/5/2013 7:37 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2013/1/5 Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>:
>> I'm asking: why are you bothering with renaming the functions? This seems
>> like a needless change, _unless_ there are really non-pseudo-random services
>> being added.
> We already have get_random_byte() which is not pseudo-random number
> generator.
>
> Apart from that, the naming scheme was confusing without "prandom" prefix.
> Because I introduced new functions in the commit 6582c665 ("prandom:
> introduce prandom_bytes() and prandom_bytes_state()").
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-05 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 12:18 [PATCH -v2 00/26] rename random32 to prandom Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:18 ` [PATCH -v2 01/26] raid6test: use prandom_bytes() Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:18 ` [PATCH -v2 02/26] uuid: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:18 ` [PATCH -v2 03/26] x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 17:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-04 13:48 ` Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 04/26] x86: rename random32() to prandom_u32() Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 05/26] lib/: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 06/26] mm/: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 07/26] kernel/: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH -v2 08/26] drbd: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` Akinobu Mita
[not found] ` <1357215562-6288-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 09/26] infiniband: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` Akinobu Mita
[not found] ` <1357215562-6288-10-git-send-email-akinobu.mita-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-03 16:27 ` Steve Wise
2013-01-03 16:27 ` Steve Wise
2013-01-04 13:45 ` Akinobu Mita
[not found] ` <CAC5umygnMMC2sH2c88P_gEWTgwM=CBCUcqBbo+NX=fOZ2rEGxw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-04 17:15 ` Steve Wise
2013-01-04 17:15 ` Steve Wise
2013-01-05 13:37 ` Akinobu Mita
2013-01-05 23:33 ` Steve Wise [this message]
2013-01-05 23:35 ` Steve Wise
2013-01-05 23:35 ` Steve Wise
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 10/26] mmc: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 11/26] video/uvesafb: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 12/26] xfs: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-04 18:07 ` Ben Myers
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 13/26] ubifs: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` Akinobu Mita
2013-01-15 13:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2013-01-15 13:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 14/26] uwb: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 15/26] lguest: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 16/26] scsi: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 17/26] mtd: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` Akinobu Mita
2013-01-15 13:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2013-01-15 13:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 18/26] drivers/net: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 19:36 ` Bing Zhao
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH -v2 19/26] batman-adv: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` Akinobu Mita
2013-01-04 2:12 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Antonio Quartulli
2013-01-04 2:12 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-01-04 13:50 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-04 13:50 ` Akinobu Mita
2013-01-06 9:00 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Antonio Quartulli
2013-01-06 9:00 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 20/26] net/sunrpc: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 21/26] net/sched: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 22/26] net/netfilter: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 23/26] net/core: " Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 24/26] net/core: remove duplicate statements by do-while loop Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 25/26] net: rename random32 to prandom Akinobu Mita
2013-01-03 12:19 ` [PATCH -v2 26/26] remove unused random32() and srandom32() Akinobu Mita
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