On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:04:01AM +0200, Tomas Ukkonen wrote: > Yes, that's probably the right way to do it. I was just wondering if > there's some reason why I shouldn't. Drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c > generates its own random numbers. Does anyone know why it does that or > is it just sloppy coding? There's probably no reason why a per-instance seed and a cookbook pseudorandom number generator (e.g. Park-Miller) won't suffice. Most of these rand()s don't require more than a few machine words of state. Cheers, Bill -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
