I read about somethink like that another day in the www.embedded.com. I 
don't have the exact link, but you can shearch for it. Good luck. 

Vineet Joglekar wrote: 
> Hi all, 
> 
> Can someone please tell me where can I find and which 
> random/pseudo-random number generator can I use inside the linux 
> kernel? (2.4.28) 
> 
> I found out 1 function get_random_bytes() in 
> linux/drivers/char/random.c but thats not what I want. 
> 
> I want a function where I will be supplying a seed to that function 
> as an input, and will get a random number back. If same seed is used, 
> same number should be generated again. 

Without knowing what you're doing I can't say if it justifies having all 
that extra code around, but the stuff from the library, like srand48, 
will do this. You can add the code to your module. 

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