# \[PATCH 11/29\] video/uvesafb: rename random32() to prandom\_u32()

- Subsystems: FRAMEBUFFER LAYER, THE REST
- Maintainers: Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds
- List: linux-fbdev
- 1 message, 1 author
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2012/12/3975920/t

## \[PATCH 11/29\] video/uvesafb: rename random32() to prandom\_u32()

- From: Akinobu Mita \<akinobu.mita@gmail.com\>
- Date: 2012-12-24 02:15:00 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2012/12/3975920.md

```text
Use more preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/uvesafb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
index 2f8f82d..d120b11 100644
--- a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static int uvesafb_exec(struct uvesafb_ktask *task)
 	memcpy(&m->id, &uvesafb_cn_id, sizeof(m->id));
 	m->seq = seq;
 	m->len = len;
-	m->ack = random32();
+	m->ack = prandom_u32();
 
 	/* uvesafb_task structure */
 	memcpy(m + 1, &task->t, sizeof(task->t));
-- 
1.7.11.7

```