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| author | Lee Jones | 2015-09-17 15:45:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu | 2015-09-21 16:00:41 +0200 |
| commit | cb2c316b22d89072643d2685ef0eb883cae8a9de (patch) | |
| tree | 579943af52b574163677e42a9900f8de20cff62a /drivers/char/hw_random | |
| parent | hwrng: doc - Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrng (diff) | |
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hwrng: Kconfig - 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 Kconfig help
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig index f48cf11c655e..8998108f9721 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ menuconfig HW_RANDOM To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called rng-core. This provides a device - that's usually called /dev/hw_random, and which exposes one + that's usually called /dev/hwrng, and which exposes one of possibly several hardware random number generators. These hardware random number generators do not feed directly |