From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754969Ab3KLMnZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:43:25 -0500 Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:57015 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752657Ab3KLMnW (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:43:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:24:44 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Greg Price Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] random: code cleanups Message-ID: <20131112042444.GC30281@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Greg Price , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 06:57:25PM -0500, Greg Price wrote: > > I recently read through the random number generator's code. > This series has fixes for some minor things I spotted. > > Four of the patches touch comments only. Four simplify code without > changing its behavior (total diffstat: 35 insertions, 73 deletions), > and one is a trivial signedness fix. Two patches change the locking > and lockless concurrency control in account(), including one bugfix. > The bug is related to the one Jiri found and fixed in May. Hi Greg, My apologies for not being able to get to this patch series before the patch window opened --- this week has been crazy. None of the changes seem to be especially critical, and a number of the patches don't apply cleanly to the random.git tree (some of the spelling fixes have already been fixed, for example), which has patches queued up for the upcoming merge window. So I'm going to defer applying these patches for 2.13, and I'd ask you if you'd be willing to rebase these patches against the random.git tree, so they can be pulled in after the merge window closes. Thanks, - Ted