Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:33:17 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] random: use chacha20 for get_random_int/long |
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On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:49:00PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > If there are other changes to the relevant lines from the networking > > tree, sure. > > This patch set has *nothing* to do with the networking tree. That just > a topic confusion. There shouldn't be more discussion about > networking, because it doesn't make sense in any way at all.
Well, the reason people do is for hysterical... er, historical reasons. *Originaly* get_random_int() was introduced for use by the networking folks, and some people think that get_random_int() therefore "belongs" to the networking tree, even though there are other users of get_random_int() and get_random_long() besides the networking code.
I'd much rather break this obviously historical connection, but patching people's wetware is a lot harder than getting a patch into the kernel tree....
- Ted
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