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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro" <lorenzo@gnu.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, Hank Leininger <hlein@progressive-comp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:05:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1106985945.4174.60.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106950369.3864.45.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 23:12 +0100, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
wrote:
> El vie, 28-01-2005 a las 21:47 +0100, Arjan van de Ven escribió:
> > as for obsd_get_random_long().. would it be possible to use the
> > get_random_int() function from the patches I posted the other day? They
> > use the existing random.c infrastructure instead of making a copy...
> 
> As seen at
>  the functions at obsd_rand.c so we wouldn't need to add more maintenance overhead, I hope you can understand why I want it like that

I actually DON'T understand that. 
What you say kinda sorta makes sense if you're an external patch. But if
you are inside the kernel (that was the goal of this patch, right?) then
the argument is actually entirely the wrong way around...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-28 17:17 Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-01-28 17:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-28 17:47   ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-01-28 18:18     ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-28 18:54       ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-01-28 19:09     ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-28 18:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-28 18:31   ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-01-28 18:52     ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-28 18:58       ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-01-28 20:34       ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-01-28 20:45         ` David S. Miller
2005-01-28 21:34           ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-28 21:45             ` David S. Miller
2005-01-29  6:59             ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 20:47         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-28 22:12           ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-01-29  8:04             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-29  8:05             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-01-29  9:15           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-31 16:50             ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-31 17:23               ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-01-31 20:11                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-31 23:27                   ` linux
2005-02-12 22:29                     ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-12 23:25                       ` linux
2005-02-13  0:18                         ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-13  1:41                           ` linux
2005-02-02 17:17                   ` linux
2005-02-02 17:38                     ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-02-03 19:51                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-02-03 20:14                         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-01-31 19:42               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-31 20:03                 ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-02-01 23:22                   ` Matt Mackall
2005-01-28 18:04 ` Jörn Engel
2005-01-28 18:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-28 18:36   ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-02-01 14:54   ` Bill Davidsen
2005-01-28 19:24 ` Horst von Brand
2005-01-29 18:16 ` Florian Weimer
2005-01-28 19:24 Hank Leininger
2005-01-29  7:24 linux

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