On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 04:15:49PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 1:34 PM Stanislaw Gruszka > <stanislaw.gruszka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > > Please CC me on future revisions. > > > > > > As of 6.2, the prandom namespace is *only* for predictable randomness. > > > There's no need to rename anything. So nack on this patch 1/5. > > > > It is not obvious (for casual developers like me) that p in prandom > > stands for predictable. Some renaming would be useful IMHO. > > Renaming makes backports more complicated, because stable teams will > have to 'undo' name changes. > Stable teams are already overwhelmed by the amount of backports, and > silly merge conflicts. Since when backporting problems is valid argument for stop making changes? That's new for me. > linux kernel is not for casual readers. Sure. Regards Stanislaw
