From 82535887827bb9f56fd86bac11b86387e4758c50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrod Johnson <jbjohnso@us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 15:03:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] There is an upstream accepted solution to this Revert "When
 (re)starting a couple of virtual machines (about 10) on the same host"

This reverts commit cca49ac01f1a5a6bdc67ec55d8d3d83bd16d818d.
---
 src/core/device.c | 21 ---------------------
 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/device.c b/src/core/device.c
index ba7d26c2..330f95c5 100644
--- a/src/core/device.c
+++ b/src/core/device.c
@@ -20,15 +20,11 @@
 FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER );
 
 #include <string.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <byteswap.h>
 #include <ipxe/list.h>
 #include <ipxe/tables.h>
 #include <ipxe/init.h>
 #include <ipxe/interface.h>
 #include <ipxe/device.h>
-#include <ipxe/netdevice.h>
-#include <ipxe/timer.h>
 
 /**
  * @file
@@ -82,9 +78,6 @@ static void rootdev_remove ( struct root_device *rootdev ) {
 static void probe_devices ( void ) {
 	struct root_device *rootdev;
 	int rc;
-	struct net_device *netdev;
-	unsigned int seed;
-	unsigned int ll_addr;
 
 	for_each_table_entry ( rootdev, ROOT_DEVICES ) {
 		list_add ( &rootdev->dev.siblings, &devices );
@@ -92,20 +85,6 @@ static void probe_devices ( void ) {
 		if ( ( rc = rootdev_probe ( rootdev ) ) != 0 )
 			list_del ( &rootdev->dev.siblings );
 	}
-
-	/* Seed the pseudo-random number generator. Combine the current
-	 * timer ticks and the least significant bits of the hardware
-	 * address(es) to get a high degree of randomness for the seed.
-	 */
-	seed = (unsigned int)currticks();
-	for_each_netdev ( netdev ) {
-		memcpy ( &ll_addr, ( netdev->ll_addr + netdev->ll_protocol->ll_addr_len
-				 - sizeof ( ll_addr ) ), sizeof ( ll_addr ) );
-		ll_addr = ntohl ( ll_addr );
-		seed <<= 1;
-		seed ^= ll_addr;
-	}
-	srand ( seed );
 }
 
 /**