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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/11] random: code cleanups
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:24:44PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> My apologies for not being able to get to this patch series before the
> patch window opened --- this week has been crazy. None of the changes
> seem to be especially critical, and a number of the patches don't
> apply cleanly to the random.git tree (some of the spelling fixes have
> already been fixed, for example), which has patches queued up for the
> upcoming merge window. So I'm going to defer applying these patches
> for 2.13, and I'd ask you if you'd be willing to rebase these patches
> against the random.git tree, so they can be pulled in after the merge
> window closes.

Ah, I hadn't spotted the random.git tree! Looks like 'dev' at
v3.11-20-g392a546 is the tip -- is that right? Rebasing now, and I'll
follow up with the result.

I agree that none of the changes are especially critical. There is
one bugfix, and the rest are code cleanups.

Beyond these easy cleanups, I have a couple of patches queued up (just
written yesterday, not quite finished) to make /dev/urandom block at
boot until it has enough entropy, as the "Mining your P's and Q's"
paper recommended and people have occasionally discussed since then.
Those patches were definitely for after 3.13 anyway, and I'll send
them when they're ready. I see some notifications and warnings in
this direction in the random.git tree, which is great.

Cheers,
Greg


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