From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] random32: do not feed jiffies as seed from lpfc driver Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140731.131131.187399848810031703.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1406837317-13648-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, JBottomley@Parallels.com, james.smart@emulex.com To: dborkman@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:50417 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751151AbaGaULb (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:11:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1406837317-13648-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:08:37 +0200 > In prandom we have already reseeding mechanisms that trigger > periodically from a much better entropy source than just > feeding in jiffies through lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec() > [what a function name 8-)]. Therefore, just remove this. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann > Cc: James Bottomley > Cc: James Smart > --- > This can also go via James, how you prefer it. James can pick this up, thanks.