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Donenfeld" To: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] convert tree to get_random_u32_{below,above,between}() Message-ID: References: <20221022014403.3881893-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> <20221021205522.6b56fd24@kernel.org> <20221021223242.05df0a5b@kernel.org> <20221021230322.00dd045c@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger , Herbert Xu , Richard Weinberger , Helge Deller , Russell King , Jason Gunthorpe , Catalin Marinas , Jakub Kicinski , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook , Heiko Carstens , Jani Nikula , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, SeongJae Park , loongarch@lists.linux.dev, Jaegeuk Kim , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, "Martin K . Petersen" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph =?utf-8?Q?B=C3 =B6hmwalder?= , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Sakari Ailus , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 05:07:13PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 11:03:22PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:47:06 +0200 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 10:32:42PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > > But whatever. I mean - hopefully there aren't any conflicts in the ~50 > > > > networking files you touch. I just wish that people didn't pipe up with > > > > the tree wide changes right after the merge window. Feels like the > > > > worst possible timing. > > > > > > Oh, if the timing is what makes this especially worrisome, I have > > > no qualms about rebasing much later, and reposting this series then. > > > I'll do that. > > > > Cool, thanks! I promise to not be grumpy if you repost around rc6 :) > > One way of making things less painful for the stable branch and for > the upstream branch is to *add* new helpers instead of playing > replacement games like s/prandom_u32_max/get_random_u32_below/. This > is what causes the patch conflict problems. > > One advantage of at least adding the new functions to the stable > branches, even if we don't do the wholesale replacement, is that it That's a good idea. I'll also save the removal commit, anyhow, for a separate thing at the end of 6.2 rc1, so that -next doesn't have issues either. That's how things wound up going down for the first tranche of these, and that worked well. Jason