[PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible

Rolf Eike Beer eike-kernel at sf-tec.de
Thu Oct 13 04:40:40 PDT 2022


Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2022, 12:16:35 CEST schrieb Florian Westphal:
> Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel at sf-tec.de> wrote:
> > Florian, can you comment and maybe fix it?
> 
> Can't comment, do not remember -- this was 5 years ago.
> 
> > Or you wanted to move the variable before the loop and keep the random
> > state between the loops and only reseed when all '1' bits have been
> > consumed.
> Probably.  No clue, best to NOT change it to not block Jasons series and
> then just simplify this and remove all the useless shifts.

Sure. Jason, just in case you are going to do a v7 this could move to u8 then.
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