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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: minstrels: spare numerous useless calls to get_random_bytes

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On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 10:54 +0100, Karl Beldan wrote:
> From: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ATM, only the first array value returned by get_random_bytes is used.
> This change moves the call to get_random_bytes from the nested loop it
> is in to its parent.
> While at it, replace get_random_bytes with prandom_bytes since PRNs are
> way enough for the selection process.
> After this, minstrel_ht reclaims 80 PR-bytes instead of 640 R-bytes.

Applied.

johannes

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