linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Improve comment of get_random

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Date:   Sat, 1 Oct 2022 13:31:32 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     William Zijl <postmaster@...ted.xyz>
Cc:     tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve comment of get_random_bytes function

On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 02:18:31AM +0200, William Zijl wrote:
> The old comment of this function had a double whitespace and contained
> grammatical errors, such as: `the randomness by this function`, `at
> least once at any point prior`. This patch replaces those sentenced with
> `the randomness of this function`, `at any point prior to this`
> respectively.

"at any point prior" seems fine to me.

"the randomness by this function" is wrong, but the correction for it
should be "the randomness returned by this function".

Feel free to submit a v2.

Jason