netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: introduce generic net_random

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Message-ID: <1378206045.2048.9.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Tue, 03 Sep 2013 04:00:45 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: introduce generic net_random_N helper

On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 12:26 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> We have implemented the same function over and over, so introduce a
> generic helper net_random_N() that unifies these implementations.
> It internally used net_random() which eventually resolves to
> prandom_u32(). Explicit include of reciprocal_div.h is not necessary.

Perhaps adding a generic helper to random.h like
	u32 prandom_u32_between(u32 low, u32 high);
or
	u32 prandom_u32_range(u32 bound1, u32 bound2)
would be better.


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