linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/9] random: re-group and re-document functions

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Message-Id: <20220211123546.474952-1-Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:35:37 +0100
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...inikbrodowski.net
Cc:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/9] random: re-group and re-document functions

We previously had massive documentation comments and functions strewn
all about. This attempts to restore sanity by dividing the code into a
few sections:

- Initialization and readiness waiting.
- Fast key erasure RNG.
- Entropy accumulation and extraction.
- Entropy collection.
- Userspace read/write.
- Sysctl.

The result of this ordering and this grouping is only 2 forward
declarations, indicating that this is probably a sensible grouping.
Also, some documentation that was just hopelessly out of date been
removed. We'll later look into re-adding parts of this to the Linux man
pages project.

No functional changes.

Jason A. Donenfeld (9):
  random: introduce drain_entropy() helper to declutter crng_reseed()
  random: remove useless header comment
  random: rewrite header introductory comment
  random: group initialization wait functions
  random: group crng functions
  random: group entropy extraction functions
  random: group entropy collection functions
  random: group userspace read/write functions
  random: group sysctl functions

 drivers/char/random.c  | 1912 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 include/linux/random.h |    6 +-
 2 files changed, 952 insertions(+), 966 deletions(-)

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