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| author |   José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com> | 2016-04-11 10:41:07 +0300 |
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| committer | José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com> | 2016-04-13 08:17:18 +0300 |
| commit | e09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 (patch) | |
| tree | d10dc367189862e7ca5c592f033dc3726e1df4e3 /kernel/Documentation/hw_random.txt | |
| parent | f93b97fd65072de626c074dbe099a1fff05ce060 (diff) | |
These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources
are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page.
During the rebasing, the following patch collided:
Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85).
Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the
source already.
Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/hw_random.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Documentation/hw_random.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/hw_random.txt b/kernel/Documentation/hw_random.txt index 026e237bb..fce163490 100644 --- a/kernel/Documentation/hw_random.txt +++ b/kernel/Documentation/hw_random.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Introduction: The hw_random framework is software that makes use of a special hardware feature on your CPU or motherboard, a Random Number Generator (RNG). The software has two parts: - a core providing the /dev/hw_random character device and its + a core providing the /dev/hwrng character device and its sysfs support, plus a hardware-specific driver that plugs into that core. @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Introduction: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ - Those tools use /dev/hw_random to fill the kernel entropy pool, + Those tools use /dev/hwrng to fill the kernel entropy pool, which is used internally and exported by the /dev/urandom and /dev/random special files. @@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ Theory of operation: The rng-tools package uses such tests in "rngd", and lets you run them by hand with a "rngtest" utility. - /dev/hw_random is char device major 10, minor 183. + /dev/hwrng is char device major 10, minor 183. CLASS DEVICE. There is a /sys/class/misc/hw_random node with two unique attributes, "rng_available" and "rng_current". The "rng_available" attribute lists the hardware-specific drivers available, while "rng_current" lists the one which is currently - connected to /dev/hw_random. If your system has more than one + connected to /dev/hwrng. If your system has more than one RNG available, you may change the one used by writing a name from the list in "rng_available" into "rng_current". |