linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] random: re-group and re-document functions

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Message-ID: <YgirSXcAxKyO9BhD@owl.dominikbrodowski.net>
Date:   Sun, 13 Feb 2022 07:55:05 +0100
From:   Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] random: re-group and re-document functions

Am Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 01:23:08PM +0100 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:
> 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 Also, some documentation that was just hopelessly out of date been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.

Hi Jason,

thanks for your massive patchset. While some of it was a bit tedious and
repetetive to review, feel free to add my

	Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>

to patchs 1-3, 6 and 8-10. For patches 4, 5 and 7, I have some comments;
once addressed, feel free to add my reviewed-by tag to those as well.

Thanks,
	Dominik