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| H A D | random.c | diff 85608f8e16c28f818f6bb9918958d231afa8bec2 Wed Jun 11 05:09:20 CEST 2014 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> random: remove unneeded hash of a portion of the entropy pool
We previously extracted a portion of the entropy pool in
mix_pool_bytes() and hashed it in to avoid racing CPU's from returning
duplicate random values. Now that we are using a spinlock to prevent
this from happening, this is no longer necessary. So remove it, to
simplify the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
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