Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jan 2013 22:37:13 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v2 09/26] infiniband: rename random32() to prandom_u32() | From | Akinobu Mita <> |
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2013/1/5 Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>: > I'm asking: why are you bothering with renaming the functions? This seems > like a needless change, _unless_ there are really non-pseudo-random services > being added.
We already have get_random_byte() which is not pseudo-random number generator.
Apart from that, the naming scheme was confusing without "prandom" prefix. Because I introduced new functions in the commit 6582c665 ("prandom: introduce prandom_bytes() and prandom_bytes_state()").
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