2024-01-08 13:22:08

by Baruch Siach

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Subject: [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: hw_random: update rng-tools website

rng-tools upstream moved to github. New upstream does not appear to
consider itself official website for hw_random. Drop that part.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst
index d494601717f1..bfc39f1cf470 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst
@@ -14,10 +14,9 @@ into that core.

To make the most effective use of these mechanisms, you
should download the support software as well. Download the
-latest version of the "rng-tools" package from the
-hw_random driver's official Web site:
+latest version of the "rng-tools" package from:

- http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
+ https://github.com/nhorman/rng-tools

Those tools use /dev/hwrng to fill the kernel entropy pool,
which is used internally and exported by the /dev/urandom and
--
2.43.0



2024-01-11 16:47:27

by Jonathan Corbet

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: hw_random: update rng-tools website

Baruch Siach <[email protected]> writes:

> rng-tools upstream moved to github. New upstream does not appear to
> consider itself official website for hw_random. Drop that part.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <[email protected]>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst
> index d494601717f1..bfc39f1cf470 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst
> @@ -14,10 +14,9 @@ into that core.
>
> To make the most effective use of these mechanisms, you
> should download the support software as well. Download the
> -latest version of the "rng-tools" package from the
> -hw_random driver's official Web site:
> +latest version of the "rng-tools" package from:
>
> - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
> + https://github.com/nhorman/rng-tools
>

Applied, thanks.

jon