From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:18:20 -0800
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:47:30PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > SFQ doesn't need true random numbers, it is only using them to salt > > a hash. Therefore it is better to use net_random() and avoid any possible > > problems with depleting the entropy pool. > > The random-number algorithm used by net_random() certainly does appear > to be considerably stronger than the one I used to generate the results > in the 1990 paper. ;-) > > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Also applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
