Re: [TEST(/review)] major/minor/devname fix

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:51:26 +0300
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:32:39AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> There is no risk of collision, look at what devfs_random() does.

What happens with whole devfs_random() logic, in case first devfs_seed 
obtained after masking with 0xf0f becomes 0 again (as it was before)? And 
second? And third? It may happens especially in some "no good entropy yet" 
scenario.

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