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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/7] random: remove unused OUTPUT_POOL constants
Am Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 04:44:12PM +0100 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:
> We no longer have an output pool. Rather, we have just a wakeup bits
> threshold for /dev/random reads, presumably so that processes don't
> hang. This value, random_write_wakeup_bits, is configurable anyway. So
> all the no longer usefully named OUTPUT_POOL constants were doing was
> setting a reasonable default for random_write_wakeup_bits. This commit
> gets rid of the constants and just puts it all in the default value of
> random_write_wakeup_bits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>

Thanks,
Dominik

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