Re: float and random number generator

[Alexander Nyberg <alexn@xxxxxxxxx>]

>              1)   can we use float in the kernel modules, i don't find any
> using it ?

This recently was up on lkml, check the archives. The RAID-functionality
uses it for checksumming or something similar. So yes, it can be done.

>              2)               do we have any random number generator in the
> kernel ? anything that can be used by modules, looked at linux/random.h,
> but there wasnt any generic random number generator that generated a random
> number between two limits say 1 .. n, where n might be any positive integer

drivers/char/random.c:
void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes)

Alex


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