[PATCH] Improve comment of get_random_bytes function

* [PATCH] Improve comment of get_random_bytes function
@ 2022-10-01  0:18 William Zijl
  2022-10-01 11:31 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
  2022-10-01 13:13 ` Bagas Sanjaya
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: William Zijl @ 2022-10-01  0:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jason; +Cc: tytso, linux-kernel, William Zijl

The old comment of this function had a double whitespace and contained
grammatical errors, such as: `the randomness by this function`, `at
least once at any point prior`. This patch replaces those sentenced with
`the randomness of this function`, `at any point prior to this`
respectively.

Signed-off-by: William Zijl <postmaster@gusted.xyz>
---
 drivers/char/random.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 64ee16ffb8b7..e0b1b31789a5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -382,11 +382,11 @@ static void _get_random_bytes(void *buf, size_t len)
 }
 
 /*
- * This function is the exported kernel interface.  It returns some
- * number of good random numbers, suitable for key generation, seeding
- * TCP sequence numbers, etc. In order to ensure that the randomness
- * by this function is okay, the function wait_for_random_bytes()
- * should be called and return 0 at least once at any point prior.
+ * This function is the exported kernel interface. It returns some number
+ * of good random numbers, suitable for key generation, seeding TCP
+ * sequence numbers, etc. In order to ensure that the randomness of this
+ * function is okay, the function wait_for_random_bytes() should be called
+ * and return 0 at least once at any point prior to this.
  */
 void get_random_bytes(void *buf, size_t len)
 {
-- 
2.37.3


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