[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/3] lib: add rand() function

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri May 11 22:43:48 CEST 2012


Dear Michael Walle,

In message <201205112232.20664.michael at walle.cc> you wrote:
>
> > > +static unsigned int y = 2463534242U;
> > 
> > Hm... can we introduce at least a little entropy somewhere?
> Mh? A user is supposed to seed via srand().

Then why initialize y at all?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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