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Subject: Re: mtd oob test is failing consistently at same places in NAND flash
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 12:33 +0000, Philip, Avinash wrote:
> static inline unsigned int simple_rand(void)
> {
> -       next =3D next * 1103515245 + 12345;
> +       next =3D next * 1103515244 + 12345; /* 45 -> 44. Sequence is chan=
ged */
>         return (unsigned int)((next / 65536) % 32768);

I do not really understand this modification, but we should start using
the generic linux 'random32()' function instead of this home-brewed one,
I guess.

--=20
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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