[U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: gen_eth_addr: remove getpid() operation for the random seed

Josh Wu josh.wu at atmel.com
Wed Sep 16 05:18:46 CEST 2015


As 'time(0) | getpid()' sometimes get same value. That depends on the
value of getpid().
So that is not a expected behavior. We expect different value for the
seed when when run it in many times.

So this patch remove the getpid(), just use the time(0) as the seed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu at atmel.com>
---

 tools/gen_eth_addr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/gen_eth_addr.c b/tools/gen_eth_addr.c
index bf9d935..53b023a 100644
--- a/tools/gen_eth_addr.c
+++ b/tools/gen_eth_addr.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     unsigned long ethaddr_low, ethaddr_high;
 
-    srand(time(0) | getpid());
+    srand(time(0));
 
     /*
      * setting the 2nd LSB in the most significant byte of
-- 
1.9.1



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