From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] random32: introduce random32_get_bytes() and prandom32_get_bytes()
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:29:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121031032902.GD9475@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC5umyi=f+Q2Dxc4KS8nKd8uD3yvVNf8M9g1-nBt+6UsqSGHdg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:12:39PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> >>
> >> How about prandom32_get_bytes_state() and prandom32_get_bytes() instead?
> >
> > I agree with your suggestion. I'll rename them and try again.
> >
> > By the way, should we also rename the existing random32() and
> > prandom32() in the future?
I suppose the other way to go is to just use random32 as the common
prefix, and just have random32() and random32_state(). My concern was
that people might assume that prandom32() and random32() might imply
that only prandom32() was the one using a pseudo-random number
generator. This might be easier since there are large number of uses
of random32() in the source tree, but only a relative few using
prandom32().
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-28 7:18 [PATCH 1/9] random32: introduce random32_get_bytes() and prandom32_get_bytes() Akinobu Mita
2012-10-28 7:18 ` [PATCH 2/9] uuid: use random32_get_bytes() Akinobu Mita
2012-10-29 20:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-30 1:49 ` Huang Ying
2012-10-30 4:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-31 1:35 ` Huang Ying
2012-10-31 2:38 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-31 3:06 ` Huang Ying
2012-10-28 7:19 ` [PATCH 3/9] mtd: mtd_nandecctest: use random32_get_bytes instead of get_random_bytes() Akinobu Mita
2012-10-28 7:19 ` [PATCH 4/9] mtd: nandsim: use random32_get_bytes Akinobu Mita
2012-10-28 7:19 ` [PATCH 5/9] ubifs: " Akinobu Mita
2012-10-28 7:19 ` [PATCH 6/9] mtd: mtd_oobtest: convert to use prandom32_get_bytes() Akinobu Mita
2012-10-28 7:19 ` [PATCH 7/9] mtd: mtd_pagetest: " Akinobu Mita
2012-10-28 7:19 ` [PATCH 8/9] mtd: mtd_speedtest: use random32_get_bytes Akinobu Mita
2012-10-28 7:19 ` [PATCH 9/9] mtd: mtd_subpagetest: convert to use prandom32_get_bytes() Akinobu Mita
2012-10-29 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/9] random32: introduce random32_get_bytes() and prandom32_get_bytes() Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-30 11:01 ` Akinobu Mita
2012-10-30 11:12 ` Akinobu Mita
2012-10-31 3:29 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2012-10-31 11:53 ` Akinobu Mita
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