linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the random tree with the net-next tree

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Message-Id: <20131112.181717.2152470373264166279.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:17:17 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tytso@....edu
Cc:	dborkman@...hat.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the random tree with the net-next
 tree

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:02:42 -0500

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 09:55:29AM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> 
>> As per Hannes' suggestion, the result should look like (see cover
>> letter in [1]):
>> 
>> if (r->entropy_total > 128) {
>> 	r->initialized = 1;
>> 	r->entropy_total = 0;
>> 	if (r == &nonblocking_pool) {
>> 		prandom_reseed_late();
>> 		pr_notice("random: %s pool is initialized\n",
>> 			  r->name);
>> 	}
>> }
> 
> Agreed.  What's the schedule for pushing net-dev to Linus?  I'm
> currently at Korea Linux Forum, and I was originally planning on
> pushing random.git to Linus sometime today, but I'm also willing to
> wait for net-dev to go first.  Either way, we should make sure Linus
> is aware of the agreed-upon resolution of the merge conflict.

Linus is going to pull it soon, I sent the pull request last night but
he was away from decent internet access at the time.
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