Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 5 authors, 2014-08-11

Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] random32: do not feed jiffies as seed from lpfc driver

From: James Bottomley <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-01 04:13:01

On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 22:08 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
In prandom we have already reseeding mechanisms that trigger
periodically from a much better entropy source than just
feeding in jiffies through lpfc_mbx_cmpl_fcf_scan_read_fcf_rec()
[what a function name 8-)]. Therefore, just remove this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <redacted>
Cc: James Bottomley <redacted>
Cc: James Smart <redacted>
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 This can also go via James, how you prefer it.
Could you send to linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Christoph Hellwig is
gathering patches for SCSI via that list.

Thanks,

James
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