svn commit: r280955 - in head/sys: modules/notrandom dev/notrandom

[Mateusz Guzik]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 11:36:26AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Mark R V Murray <mark at grondar.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Before someone makes a terrible mistake, I should point out that 4 is
> > confirmed random, as cited here: https://xkcd.com/221/
> 
> 
> But surely to be non-random we need an equal number of 1 and 0 bits, making
> 15 the clear choice.
> 

I don't know man.

First off, '7' could not be chosen at random. I'm convinced factors like
amount of CPUs (and their speed), RAM etc. played a huge factor here.

Now that everything is faster these days, one could ponder returning
'8'.

We can add an ioctl to control this.

Opinions?
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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>