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

From: Florian Westphal
Date: Thu Oct 13 2022 - 06:17:10 EST


Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx> 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.