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Author SHA1 Message Date
Lee Jones
e9e23158f2 hwrng: doc - Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrng
In April 2009, commit d405640 ("Driver Core: misc: add node name support
for misc devices.") inadvertently changed the device node name from
/dev/hw_random to /dev/hwrng.  Since 6 years has passed since the change
it seems unpractical to change it back, as this node name is probably
considered ABI by now.  So instead, we'll just change the documentation
to match the current situation.

NB: It looks like rng-tools have already been updated.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kieran Bingham <kieranbingham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-09-21 22:00:41 +08:00
Tang Chen
6375bcf786 hwrng: Fix a wrong comment in Documentation/hw_random.txt
Seeing from the comment, there should be three reasons for removing request_mem_region.
Change the comment "two" to "three".

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2013-03-10 18:16:36 +08:00
David Brownell
537878d2c9 hw_random doc updates
Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current:

 - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the
   current code:  it's a framework now, a "core" with a small
   sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to.
   Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end.

 - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file
   and better explains what this really does.

Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy
pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with
that important task.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00