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Commit 3e4dad50 authored by Josh Wu's avatar Josh Wu Committed by Tom Rini
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tools: gen_eth_addr: add getpid() to time(0) to avoid duplicated seed


As 'time(0) | getpid()' will have a lot of duplicated value. It is not a
expected behavior. We expect different value for the seed when when run
it in many times.

So this patch will left shift the getpid() and add to time(0). That
avoid duplicated value.

Test command is like:
  % RUN=0; while [ $RUN -lt 10000 ]; do
  tools/gen_eth_addr; RUN=$(($RUN+1)); done | sort | uniq | wc -l
  10000

This patch is incorporated with suggestions made by Wolfgang Denk and Andreas
Bießmann. Thanks them a lot.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndreas Bießmann <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Tested-by: default avatarWolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
parent 1090a56c
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