linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 09/26] infiniband: rename random32() to prandom

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Date:	Sat, 5 Jan 2013 22:37:13 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	Steve Wise <swise@...lsio.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 09/26] infiniband: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

2013/1/5 Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>:
> I'm asking: why are you bothering with renaming the functions?  This seems
> like a needless change, _unless_ there are really non-pseudo-random services
> being added.

We already have get_random_byte() which is not pseudo-random number
generator.

Apart from that, the naming scheme was confusing without "prandom" prefix.
Because I introduced new functions in the commit 6582c665 ("prandom:
introduce prandom_bytes() and prandom_bytes_state()").
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