[Bug 216656] New: random: poolsize

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2022-11-03T15:08:22Z

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216656

Bug ID: 216656
Summary: random: poolsize
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
Reporter: christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Regression: No

In https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/random.4.html

In "/proc interfaces" section, item "poolsize", part "Linux 2.6 and later", it
is said the file contains value 4096.

That is not correct anymore since commit 6e8ec2552c7d ("random: use
computational hash for entropy extraction")

Also mentionned in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216061

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