Re: [PATCH 01/16] staging: exfat: use prandom_u32() for i_generation

From: Valdis KlÄtnieks
Date: Fri Nov 08 2019 - 16:54:01 EST


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@xxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxx>

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