From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dborkman@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, JBottomley@Parallels.com, james.smart@emulex.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] random32: do not feed jiffies as seed from lpfc driver
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:11:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140731.131131.187399848810031703.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406837317-13648-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com>
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:08:37 +0200
> In prandom we have already reseeding mechanisms that trigger
> periodically from a much better entropy source than just
> feeding in jiffies through lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec()
> [what a function name 8-)]. Therefore, just remove this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
> Cc: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
> ---
> This can also go via James, how you prefer it.
James can pick this up, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-31 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-31 20:08 [PATCH net-next 2/2] random32: do not feed jiffies as seed from lpfc driver Daniel Borkmann
2014-07-31 20:11 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-08-01 4:12 ` James Bottomley
2014-08-01 11:23 ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-08-11 17:07 ` James Smart
2014-08-11 18:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-11 18:38 ` James Smart
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