From: H. Peter Anvin Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:48:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Change the default device from /dev/hw_random to /dev/hwrng X-Git-Tag: v4~10 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=47c3d38892f04547ec4fd3878c0c80a3406218da;p=thirdparty%2Frng-tools.git 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 Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- diff --git a/rngd.c b/rngd.c index f6ee8a3..f1b7e1a 100644 --- a/rngd.c +++ b/rngd.c @@ -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, };