On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:20:30 -0700
Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:

Argh.. random_init isn't called until the device's are initialized.
Rather than mess with random.c initialization, how about this; it resets
the net_random state late in initialization when get_random_bytes is ready.

I hate this too.  This is the same reason we have to play
games in picking the initial hash random seed in the ipv4
routing cache, for example.