linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] random32: introduce random32_get_bytes() and prandom32_get

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Message-ID: <20121031032902.GD9475@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:29:02 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] random32: introduce random32_get_bytes() and
 prandom32_get_bytes()

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:12:39PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> >>
> >> How about prandom32_get_bytes_state() and prandom32_get_bytes() instead?
> >
> > I agree with your suggestion.  I'll rename them and try again.
> >
> > By the way, should we also rename the existing random32() and
> > prandom32() in the future?

I suppose the other way to go is to just use random32 as the common
prefix, and just have random32() and random32_state().  My concern was
that people might assume that prandom32() and random32() might imply
that only prandom32() was the one using a pseudo-random number
generator.  This might be easier since there are large number of uses
of random32() in the source tree, but only a relative few using
prandom32().

    	   	     	    	     - Ted
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