Messages in this thread | | | From | "Valdis Klētnieks" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/16] staging: exfat: use prandom_u32() for i_generation | Date | Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:53:49 -0500 |
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On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:32:39 +0100, Arnd Bergmann said: > Similar to commit 46c9a946d766 ("shmem: use monotonic time for i_generation") > we should not use the deprecated get_seconds() interface for i_generation. > > prandom_u32() is the replacement used in other file systems. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
exfat does some weird stuff with i_generation. but (a) it doesn't require monotonic increasing values and (b) this change is orthogonal to the weirdness and won't break anything.
For the exfat part:
Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
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