* [bk patches] 2.4.x RNG doc patches
@ 2003-08-02 15:07 Jeff Garzik
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2003-08-02 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: marcelo; +Cc: alan, linux-kernel
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:
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