linux-kernel - Re: lustre: why does cfs_get_random

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Date:	Thu, 3 Oct 2013 15:34:42 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Peng Tao <tao.peng@....com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nikita Danilov <nikita@...sterfs.com>
Subject: Re: lustre: why does cfs_get_random_bytes() exist?

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:26:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Does this sound reasonable?
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me, care to send a patch to do so?
> 

I can do that, but I was waiting for Andras, Peng or Nikita to let me
now if there was something I was missing or not.  I'm pretty sure it's
something bogus, perhaps left over from a OS abstraction layer to
support Solaris or some such, but I am curious what was the historical
reason for the current code.

Cheers,

						- Ted
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