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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2012-07-30 14:48:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> | 2012-07-31 15:33:14 -0400 |
| commit | 47c3d38892f04547ec4fd3878c0c80a3406218da (patch) | |
| tree | e536f8957931819bd308c55a3fa4b41b54ea49ec | |
| parent | 870f0d5d2f06d778a49e35d3a5f55183e5c9b9c0 (diff) | |
| download | rng-tools-47c3d38892f04547ec4fd3878c0c80a3406218da.tar.gz | |
Change the default device from /dev/hw_random to /dev/hwrng
Change the default device name for the hardware random number device
from /dev/hw_random to /dev/hwrng, which is the filename documented in
devices.txt and appears to be the device name created by udev and
devtmpfs.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | rngd.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = { "Kernel device used for random number output (default: /dev/random)" }, { "rng-device", 'r', "file", 0, - "Kernel device used for random number input (default: /dev/hw_random)" }, + "Kernel device used for random number input (default: /dev/hwrng)" }, { "pid-file", 'p', "file", 0, "File used for recording daemon PID, and multiple exclusion (default: /var/run/rngd.pid)" }, @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static struct arguments default_arguments = { struct arguments *arguments = &default_arguments; static struct rng rng_default = { - .rng_name = "/dev/hw_random", + .rng_name = "/dev/hwrng", .rng_fd = -1, .xread = xread, }; |