On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:20:28PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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. And if you wonder where to look for C implementations: get "Numerical Recipes in C". It's even freely available online at http://www.nr.com/ . Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- 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/
