linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Improve comment of get_random

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9o4uGHByhTDpm4UPBwi7+G4R8K41xe_UivOGpvaeB8F-g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 1 Oct 2022 23:39:32 +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 v2] Improve comment of get_random_bytes function

On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 5:36 PM William Zijl <postmaster@...ted.xyz> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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`. Replace those sentences with `the
> randomness returned by this function`, `at any point prior to this`
> respectively.

Thanks. As mentioned, "at any point prior" seems fine to me, so I kept
that as-is, but committed the rest, and rewrote the commit message.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random.git/commit/?id=d687772e6d2cbffd91fdda64812f79192c1e7ca0

Jason