[systemd-devel] [PATCH] random-seed: convert poolsize from bits to bytes

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 01.11.11 18:06, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Lennart Poettering
>> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>> > Thanks, applied (with minor modifications).
>> >
>> > Seems this is another place where kernel ABI changed, as 2.4 reported
>> > the value in bytes, only 2.6 changed it to bits.
>> >
>> > It might be worth filing a bug against the manpages pkg to get their example
>> > in random(4) fixed, which suggests it was bytes, even though they
>> > actually mention below that it is bytes...
>>
>> Yeah, the manpage is very confusing. I emailed them (as per their
>> instructions for filing bugs) at the same time as I posted this patch.
>> Didn't hear anything back though, so don't know what happened...
>
> "them" as in Michael Kerrisk? I know he was travelling last week (met
> him at LinuxCon in Prague) so he might not have been very responsive.

Looks like it was Michael Kerrisk (if he is "mtk"). Here is the
reference: <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg02322.html>.

Cheers,

Tom

PS
Sorry that I keep dropping the ml from the cc when replying to your
emails, most of the ML's I use do Reply-To munging, so I keep
forgetting...