rng updates

From: Ian Molton
Date: Fri Nov 27 2009 - 19:52:29 EST


Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 11:48 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
>> Matt Mackall wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 10:49 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>> No need to pass rng_buffer to the helper as there's only one with global
>>> scope.
>> Ah, sorry, I see what you mean now. The logic behind that is that it
>> matches the new API, whcih is all that will be left once the old drivers
>> are patched to use it. I planned to drop the helper altogether at that
>> point and though it'd make the patch more readable when that happens.
>
> Ok, that's quite reasonable.
>
>> Is this enough to get an acked-by: ? If so, I'll do that and see about
>> getting the change into linux-next.
>
> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Just to check - is that with or without changing the helpers parameters?

> You should probably go through Herbert's tree to get into -next,
> hopefully he won't be too miffed by your repeated failure to cc:
> linux-kernel initially and failure to cc: him here..

Drat, I thought he'd been re-added when LKML got added to the CC: list.
Sorry about that. Re-added to CC:

-Ian

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