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prandom: remove next_pseudo_random32 

next_pseudo_random32 implements a LCG with known bad statistical
properties and was only used in two pieces of testing code.

With no remaining users now, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <theil.markus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Karas <krzysztof.karas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
pull/1354/merge
Markus Theil 2025-02-11 07:33:32 +01:00 committed by Jason A. Donenfeld
parent 8c0cf6542e
commit 3c0c81de52
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@ -47,10 +47,4 @@ static inline void prandom_seed_state(struct rnd_state *state, u64 seed)
state->s4 = __seed(i, 128U);
}
/* Pseudo random number generator from numerical recipes. */
static inline u32 next_pseudo_random32(u32 seed)
{
return seed * 1664525 + 1013904223;
}
#endif