Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:07:11 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | [bk patches] 2.4.x RNG doc patches |
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These changes are (a) only doc patches and (b) long overdue.
Marcelo, please do a
bk pull bk://kernel.bkbits.net/jgarzik/misc-2.4
This will update the following files:
Documentation/devices.txt | 2 +- Documentation/i810_rng.txt | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
through these ChangeSets:
<jgarzik@redhat.com> (03/07/06 1.1003.15.2) [i810_rng] update docs to reflect new /dev name, and new pkg name
<jgarzik@redhat.com> (03/07/05 1.1003.15.1) devices.txt: rename /dev/intel_rng to /dev/hwrandom
diff -Nru a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt --- a/Documentation/devices.txt Sat Aug 2 11:05:08 2003 +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt Sat Aug 2 11:05:08 2003 @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ 180 = /dev/vrbuttons Vr41xx button input device 181 = /dev/toshiba Toshiba laptop SMM support 182 = /dev/perfctr Performance-monitoring counters - 183 = /dev/intel_rng Intel i8x0 random number generator + 183 = /dev/hwrandom Hardware random number generator (RNG) 184 = /dev/cpu/microcode CPU microcode update interface 186 = /dev/atomicps Atomic shapshot of process state data 187 = /dev/irnet IrNET device diff -Nru a/Documentation/i810_rng.txt b/Documentation/i810_rng.txt --- a/Documentation/i810_rng.txt Sat Aug 2 11:05:08 2003 +++ b/Documentation/i810_rng.txt Sat Aug 2 11:05:08 2003 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ In order to make effective use of this device driver, you should download the support software as well. Download the - latest version of the "intel-rng-tools" package from the + latest version of the "rng-tools" package from the i810_rng driver's official Web site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ a security-conscious person would run fitness tests on the data before assuming it is truly random. - /dev/intel_rng is char device major 10, minor 183. + /dev/hwrandom is char device major 10, minor 183. Driver notes: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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