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SubjectRe: [PATCH -v2 09/26] infiniband: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
I'm asking: why are you bothering with renaming the functions?  This 
seems like a needless change, _unless_ there are really
non-pseudo-random services being added.

On 1/4/2013 7:45 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2013/1/4 Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>:
>> Are there other "non pseudo-random" services that warrant this rename?
> I couldn't understand your question very well. So I'm not sure this is
> the expected answer:
> I only renamed pseudo-random functions defined in lib/random32.c in the
> commit 496f2f93 ("random32: rename random32 to prandom").
> This patch series aims for finishing the naming transition and removing
> the backword compatibility wrapper macros. Non pseudo-random functions
> are unrelated to this patch series.



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