linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: introduce struct ubifs

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Date:	Wed, 23 May 2012 13:46:18 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Joel Reardon <joel@...mbassador.com>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: introduce struct ubifs_keymap

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 16:41 +0200, Joel Reardon wrote:
> +static void generate_key(struct ubifs_keymap *km, u8 *to)
> +{
> +       get_random_bytes(to, km->key_size);
> +}

If this function is not going to grow soon, just open-code
'get_random_bytes()' instead. Try to not introduce wrappers like this -
we do not appreciate it usually, we prefer open-coding things unless
there is a good reason to have a wrapper function.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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