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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] eal: replace libc-based random number
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On 2019-05-14 11:20, Mattias Rönnblom wrote:
>
> Bugzilla ID: 114
> Bugzilla ID: 276
> 

I don't know which, if any, of these bugs you want to address in any 
stable releases.

If fixing bug 276 "rte_rand() bit 31 and 63 are always zero" is enough, 
then one could either split this patch set in two (w/ only the new 
rte_rand() going into stable), or develop a smaller fix based on lrand48().

Since the old implementation was an inline function, any fix will 
require a recompilation.