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    [PATCH] Remove old HW RNG support · 59f5d35f
    Michael Buesch authored
    
    
    This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number
    Generator support by a fully generic RNG API.
    
    This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules.  With this
    patch series applied, Laptops with a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG
    available now.
    
    Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap"
    devices.  (Written by Deepak Saxena).  This patch series includes the old
    patches by Deepak Saxena.
    
    The old x86-rng driver has beed split.
    
    The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
    /sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience.  For now it is sufficient to use
    cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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