Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:14:05 -0800
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Patch 2/6 introduce helper infrastructure
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:12:28AM +0000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> 
> The patch below introduces get_random_int() and randomize_range(), two
> helpers used in later patches in the series. get_random_int() shares the
> tcp/ip random number stuff so the CONFIG_INET ifdef needs to move slightly,
> and to reduce the damange due to that, secure_ip_id() needs to move inside
> random.c

Sorry I'm a bit behind on the list, but this is going to conflict with
the random.c changes in -mm, where all the network-specific bits were
moved off to net/.

I'm not against adding a generic fast PRNG here, but this way is
backwards. Let's instead make a new function get_prng_int() and
convert the network bits to use it.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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