From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexei Starovoitov Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/5] net: move net_get_random_once to lib Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:55:08 -0700 Message-ID: <5615B0DC.1060000@plumgrid.com> References: <0c4ba1bd57bebe9d4cf2cd7a7fdcb2655fe642e9.1444258405.git.daniel@iogearbox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hannes@stressinduktion.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Borkmann , davem@davemloft.net Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.220.44]:36766 "EHLO mail-pa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753349AbbJGXzL (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2015 19:55:11 -0400 Received: by pablk4 with SMTP id lk4so35124573pab.3 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:55:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0c4ba1bd57bebe9d4cf2cd7a7fdcb2655fe642e9.1444258405.git.daniel@iogearbox.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/7/15 4:20 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > From: Hannes Frederic Sowa > > There's no good reason why users outside of networking should not > be using this facility, f.e. for initializing their seeds. > > Therefore, make it accessible from there as get_random_once(). > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov