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From: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 21:44:43 +0000
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] net: make net_random_ethaddr() more random
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 3:14 AM Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> wrote:
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> The net_random_ethaddr() tries to get some entropy from different
> startup times of a board. The seed is initialized with get_timer() which
> has only a granularity of milliseconds. We can do better if we use
> get_ticks() which returns the raw timer ticks. Using this we have a
> higher chance of getting different values at startup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>

Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>