[PATCH 1/9] random32: introduce random32_get_bytes() and prandom32_get_bytes()

[Akinobu Mita]

2012/10/31 Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:12:39PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How about prandom32_get_bytes_state() and prandom32_get_bytes() instead?
>> >
>> > I agree with your suggestion.  I'll rename them and try again.
>> >
>> > By the way, should we also rename the existing random32() and
>> > prandom32() in the future?
>
> I suppose the other way to go is to just use random32 as the common
> prefix, and just have random32() and random32_state().  My concern was
> that people might assume that prandom32() and random32() might imply
> that only prandom32() was the one using a pseudo-random number
> generator.  This might be easier since there are large number of uses
> of random32() in the source tree, but only a relative few using
> prandom32().

Using random32 as the common prefix sounds good idea.  I'm going to
prepare the following patch set:

[patch 1] rename prandom32 to randome32_state
[patch 2] introduce random32_get_bytes and random32_get_bytes_state
[patch 3-] proliferate random32_get_bytes and random32_get_bytes_state