Re: [PATCH] random32: use real rng for non-deterministic randomness

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Dominik,

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 08:18:53AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Nice! However, wouldn't it be much better to clean up the indirection
> introduced here as well? prandom_u32() as wrapper for get_random_u32() and
> prandom_bytes() as wrapper for get_random_bytes() seems unnecessary...

Yes; we can look at tree-wide changes for 5.20. The first step in making
tree-wide changes is filling in the old function with an inline wrapper,
which then gets removed as part of the last step after all the other
patches have landed. That's a huge process, so this is just step one.

Jason