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[PATCH] intel-rng workarounds
authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:15:41 +0000 (23:15 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:18:21 +0000 (18:18 -0800)
commit79017b7c7ddaae46c8e656b379917247673cacc0
treebfad62a054a067419172379aa4b8d65b256bd02f
parent1195769fd939a0562a51bc761affd8bd3815fecb
[PATCH] intel-rng workarounds

Add a load option to intel-rng to allow skipping the FWH detection,
necessary in case the BIOS has locked read-only the firmware hub space.
Also prevent any attempt to write to firmware space if it cannot be write
enabled (apparently caused hangs on some systems not having an FWH and thus
also not having a respective RNG).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.c