From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262077AbVAOBDT (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:03:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262069AbVAOAtq (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:49:46 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:9441 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262067AbVAOAtM (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:49:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:49:07 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: Andrew Morton , "Theodore Ts'o" X-PatchBomber: http://selenic.com/scripts/mailpatches Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <7.563253706@selenic.com> Message-Id: <8.563253706@selenic.com> Subject: [PATCH 7/10] random pt2: kill dead extract_state struct Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Remove unused extract_timer_state struct. It was formerly used to feedback zero-entropy timing samples while extracting entropy, but that had a tendency to overwhelm the batch processing queue and prevent storing real samples. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Index: rnd/drivers/char/random.c =================================================================== --- rnd.orig/drivers/char/random.c 2005-01-12 21:28:04.834899546 -0800 +++ rnd/drivers/char/random.c 2005-01-12 21:28:05.741783928 -0800 @@ -777,7 +777,6 @@ }; static struct timer_rand_state input_timer_state; -static struct timer_rand_state extract_timer_state; static struct timer_rand_state *irq_timer_state[NR_IRQS]; /* @@ -1515,7 +1514,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL sysctl_init_random(random_state); #endif - extract_timer_state.dont_count_entropy = 1; return 0; err: return -1;