From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] random: Make /dev/random be almost like /dev/urandom Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 16:02:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20200107210257.GJ3619@mit.edu> References: <5e6ac8831c6cf2e56a7a4b39616d1732b2bdd06c.1577088521.git.luto@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5e6ac8831c6cf2e56a7a4b39616d1732b2bdd06c.1577088521.git.luto@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: LKML , Linux API , Kees Cook , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Lennart Poettering , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Michael Kerrisk , Willy Tarreau , Matthew Garrett , Ext4 Developers List , linux-man , Stephan Mueller List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 12:20:48AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This patch changes the read semantics of /dev/random to be the same > as /dev/urandom except that reads will block until the CRNG is > ready. > > None of the cleanups that this enables have been done yet. As a > result, this gives a warning about an unused function. > > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Applied, thanks. - Ted