From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] random: remove unused OUTPUT_POOL constants
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:25:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YeQcsEB+aO/DxGts@owl.dominikbrodowski.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220113154413.29513-7-Jason@zx2c4.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-16 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-13 15:44 [PATCH 0/7] first in overall series of rng code house cleaning Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-13 15:44 ` [PATCH 1/7] random: cleanup poolinfo abstraction Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 13:24 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-13 15:44 ` [PATCH 2/7] random: cleanup integer types Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 13:24 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-13 15:44 ` [PATCH 3/7] random: remove incomplete last_data logic Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 13:24 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-13 15:44 ` [PATCH 4/7] random: remove unused reserved argument Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 13:24 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-16 16:22 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-17 17:28 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-17 17:52 ` [PATCH] random: simplify arithmetic function flow in account() Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-17 17:55 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-13 15:44 ` [PATCH 5/7] random: rather than entropy_store abstraction, use global Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 13:24 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-13 15:44 ` [PATCH 6/7] random: remove unused OUTPUT_POOL constants Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 13:25 ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2022-01-13 15:44 ` [PATCH 7/7] random: de-duplicate INPUT_POOL constants Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 13:25 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-14 15:33 ` [PATCH] random: cleanup fractional entropy shift constants Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-14 15:39 ` David Laight
2022-01-14 15:46 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 16:35 ` [PATCH 1/4] random: prepend remaining pool constants with POOL_ Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-16 16:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] random: cleanup fractional entropy shift constants Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-17 17:31 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-16 16:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] random: access input_pool_data directly rather than through pointer Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-17 17:32 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-16 16:35 ` [PATCH 4/4] random: selectively clang-format where it makes sense Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-01-17 17:34 ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-01-17 17:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] random: prepend remaining pool constants with POOL_ Dominik Brodowski
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