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From:   Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Renaming weak prng invocations -
 prandom_bytes_state, prandom_u32_state
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Please CC me on future revisions.
> 
> As of 6.2, the prandom namespace is *only* for predictable randomness.
> There's no need to rename anything. So nack on this patch 1/5.

It is not obvious (for casual developers like me) that p in prandom
stands for predictable. Some renaming would be useful IMHO.

Regards
Stanislaw