2.4.x RNG doc patches

PATCH New Jeff Garzik 1 participant 1 message Aug 2, 2003 Documentation

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Jeff Garzik

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2003-08-02 15:07 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 2.4.x RNG doc patches

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:

<[email protected]> (03/07/06 1.1003.15.2)
[i810_rng] update docs to reflect new /dev name, and new pkg name

<[email protected]> (03/07/05 1.1003.15.1)
devices.txt: rename /dev/intel_rng to /dev/hwrandom

Documentation/devices.txt +1 -1

diff -Nru a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
@@ -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

Documentation/i810_rng.txt +2 -2

diff -Nru a/Documentation/i810_rng.txt b/Documentation/i810_rng.txt
@@ -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.
 
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