Re: linux-next: manual merge of the random tree with the net-nexttree

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Daniel,

On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:55:29 +0100 Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 11/12/2013 05:55 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the random tree got a conflict in
> > drivers/char/random.c between commit 0244ad004a54 ("random32: add
> > prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes
> > initialized") from the net-next tree and commit 301f0595c0e7 ("random:
> > printk notifications for urandom pool initialization") from the random
> > tree.
> >
> > I fixed it up (probably not properly - see below) and can carry the fix
> > as necessary (no action is required).
> 
> As per Hannes' suggestion, the result should look like (see cover
> letter in [1]):
> 
> if (r->entropy_total > 128) {
> 	r->initialized = 1;
> 	r->entropy_total = 0;
> 	if (r == &nonblocking_pool) {
> 		prandom_reseed_late();
> 		pr_notice("random: %s pool is initialized\n",
> 			  r->name);
> 	}
> }

I will use that from today.  Thanks.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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