From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>,
Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: lustre: why does cfs_get_random_bytes() exist?
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 15:34:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131003193442.GB8000@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131003172621.GA14775@kroah.com>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:26:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Does this sound reasonable?
>
> Sounds reasonable to me, care to send a patch to do so?
>
I can do that, but I was waiting for Andras, Peng or Nikita to let me
now if there was something I was missing or not. I'm pretty sure it's
something bogus, perhaps left over from a OS abstraction layer to
support Solaris or some such, but I am curious what was the historical
reason for the current code.
Cheers,
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-03 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-03 16:39 Theodore Ts'o
2013-10-03 17:26 ` Greg KH
2013-10-03 19:34 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2013-10-03 23:06 ` Dilger, Andreas
2013-10-03 23:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-10-05 6:10 ` Dilger, Andreas
2013-10-05 14:21 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-10-05 15:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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