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2017-07-14hw_random.txt: standardize document formatMauro Carvalho Chehab1-72/+87
Each text file under Documentation follows a different format. Some doesn't even have titles! Change its representation to follow the adopted standard, using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx: - use proper markups for titles; - adjust section identation; - use proper markup for notes and fix it to properly show the numbered list. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-09-21hwrng: doc - Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrngLee Jones1-4/+4
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>
2013-03-10hwrng: Fix a wrong comment in Documentation/hw_random.txtTang Chen1-1/+1
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>
2008-03-25hw_random doc updatesDavid Brownell1-19/+40
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>
2005-04-17Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+69
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!