Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757460AbXFYPUj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:20:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755739AbXFYPUa (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:20:30 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:43684 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755776AbXFYPUa (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:20:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:20:04 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Alexander Gabert Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Arjan van de Ven , libc-alpha@sourceware.org, hardened@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5 Message-ID: <20070625152004.GS11115@waste.org> References: <4675C678.3080807@gentoo.org> <1182128803.22999.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070620203022.GO11166@waste.org> <467EADA0.9020101@gentoo.org> <20070625034508.GE11115@waste.org> <467FD8E9.1000200@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <467FD8E9.1000200@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1234 Lines: 30 On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:02:01PM +0200, Alexander Gabert wrote: > >Am I right in thinking you have three unrelated patches here? > > > I don't think so but you may be right nonetheless if my opinion. The point is: the way we do development here is to break things down into a series of simple, obvious pieces and send them individually. Each patch should build and run when applied on top of the earlier patches. Then each part can be reviewed, tested, and applied on its own. It also makes figuring out what happened in the future and tracking down bugs much easier. So send three patches in this order: - fix get_random_int - rename it - add auxv bits Also, you might want to drop Linus from the cc: list unless he's chimed in on this topic already. The likely path here is for the first two patches to go through me and the last to go through Arjan, then on to Andrew Morton for his -mm tree, and then to Linus after a bit. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/