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.
