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prandom: remove next_pseudo_random32

next_pseudo_random32 implements a LCG with known bad statistical
properties and was only used in two pieces of testing code.

With no remaining users now, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <theil.markus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Karas <krzysztof.karas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

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Markus Theil and committed by
Jason A. Donenfeld 3c0c81de 8c0cf654

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include/linux/prandom.h
··· 47 47 state->s4 = __seed(i, 128U); 48 48 } 49 49 50 - /* Pseudo random number generator from numerical recipes. */ 51 - static inline u32 next_pseudo_random32(u32 seed) 52 - { 53 - return seed * 1664525 + 1013904223; 54 - } 55 - 56 50 #endif