linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] random: Remove remaining relicts of rand_initialize

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:54:43 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] random: Remove remaining relicts of rand_initialize_irq()

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 08:57:19PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> So the IRQ will be auto-sampled now or something?
>>
>> Sorry for not quite following, which commit do I look at to
>> understand this now...
>
> Yes, there was a huge discussion on LKML about two weeks ago.  The
> key commit that will be going in during the next merge window is:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git;a=commitdiff;h=775f4b297b780601e61787b766f306ed3e1d23eb

I get it now, after checking the commit and reading the LWN
article. It's all looking good,
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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