public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Cc: alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [bk patches] 2.4.x RNG doc patches
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:07:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030802150711.GA4316@gtf.org> (raw)


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:
 

                 reply	other threads:[~2003-08-02 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20030802150711.GA4316@gtf.org \
    --to=jgarzik@pobox.com \
    --cc=alan@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=marcelo@conectiva.com.br \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox