[PATCH] random: clarify PRNG MT safety guarantees

[Mattias Rönnblom]

On 2023-10-06 11:13, David Marchand wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 1:00 PM Mattias Rönnblom
> <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:
>>
>> Clarify MT safety guarantees for unregistered non-EAL threads calling
>> PRNG functions in rte_random.h.
>>
>> Clarify that rte_srand() is not MT safe in regards to calls to
>> rte_rand_max() and rte_drand().
>>
>> Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>
> 
> Should it be backported along 3a4e21301c7a ("random: initialize state
> for unregistered non-EAL threads") ?
> 
> 

I don't think that's worth the trouble, but if someone has a different 
opinion, I also don't mind if it is.