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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/11] mips: use fallback for random_get_entropy()
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:33:44AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> unconditionally.  I think this discovery asks for code optimisation, which 
> I'll try to cook up sometime.

At some point too, by the way, we might also consider putting that into
a .c file rather than a static inline in the .h, since that function is
starting to get sort of big.

Jason