From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Wise Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 09/26] infiniband: rename random32() to prandom_u32() Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:15:52 -0600 Message-ID: <50E70E48.3010900@opengridcomputing.com> References: <1357215562-6288-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> <1357215562-6288-10-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> <50E5B183.4030706@opengridcomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Akinobu Mita Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, Roland Dreier , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , Steve Wise , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org 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. On 1/4/2013 7:45 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote: > 2013/1/4 Steve Wise : >> Are there other "non pseudo-random" services that warrant this rename? > I couldn't understand your question very well. So I'm not sure this is > the expected answer: > I only renamed pseudo-random functions defined in lib/random32.c in the > commit 496f2f93 ("random32: rename random32 to prandom"). > This patch series aims for finishing the naming transition and removing > the backword compatibility wrapper macros. Non pseudo-random functions > are unrelated to this patch series. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html