netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] random32: do not feed jiffies as seed from lpfc driver

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Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2014 04:12:58 +0000
From:	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>
To:	"dborkman@...hat.com" <dborkman@...hat.com>
CC:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"james.smart@...lex.com" <james.smart@...lex.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] random32: do not feed jiffies as seed from
 lpfc driver

On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 22:08 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> 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@...hat.com>
> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>
> Cc: James Smart <james.smart@...lex.com>
> ---
>  This can also go via James, how you prefer it.

Could you send to linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org; Christoph Hellwig is
gathering patches for SCSI via that list.

Thanks,

James