Re: [PATCH] backports: random: add prandom_bytes macro for pre-3.8 kernels

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On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 12:57 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Map prandom_bytes() calls to get_random_bytes() for kernels before
> 3.8 kernel. This patch is needed by mac80211 rate control code
> since following:

> +/* use get_random_bytes() for lack of prandom_bytes() */
> +#define prandom_bytes(a, b)		get_random_bytes(a, b)

I don't think this is a good idea, it's a completely different interface
(get_random_bytes is much higher "quality".)

We had a different patch for this fairly recently and I thought Luis
applied it?

johannes

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