netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: make net_get_random

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Message-Id: <20131025.190424.652347121699462995.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:04:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: make net_get_random_once irqsave

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:12:00 +0200

> I initial build a non-irqsave version of net_get_random_once because I
> would liked to have the freedom to defer even the extraction process of
> get_random_bytes until the nonblocking pool is fully seeded.
> 
> I don't think this is a good idea anymore and thus this patch makes
> net_get_random_once irqsave. Now someone using net_get_random_once does
> not need to care from where it is called.
> 
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied.
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