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author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-07-03 10:25:08 -0400 |
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committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-07-03 10:25:08 -0400 |
commit | 0a1340c185734a57fbf4775927966ad4a1347b02 (patch) | |
tree | d9ed8f0dd809a7c542a3356601125ea5b5aaa804 /include/linux/hw_random.h | |
parent | af18ddb8864b096e3ed4732e2d4b21c956dcfe3a (diff) | |
parent | 29454dde27d8e340bb1987bad9aa504af7081eba (diff) | |
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Merge rsync://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
include/linux/kernel.h
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diff --git a/include/linux/hw_random.h b/include/linux/hw_random.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..21ea7610e177 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/hw_random.h @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +/* + Hardware Random Number Generator + + Please read Documentation/hw_random.txt for details on use. + + ---------------------------------------------------------- + This software may be used and distributed according to the terms + of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference. + + */ + +#ifndef LINUX_HWRANDOM_H_ +#define LINUX_HWRANDOM_H_ +#ifdef __KERNEL__ + +#include <linux/types.h> +#include <linux/list.h> + +/** + * struct hwrng - Hardware Random Number Generator driver + * @name: Unique RNG name. + * @init: Initialization callback (can be NULL). + * @cleanup: Cleanup callback (can be NULL). + * @data_present: Callback to determine if data is available + * on the RNG. If NULL, it is assumed that + * there is always data available. + * @data_read: Read data from the RNG device. + * Returns the number of lower random bytes in "data". + * Must not be NULL. + * @priv: Private data, for use by the RNG driver. + */ +struct hwrng { + const char *name; + int (*init)(struct hwrng *rng); + void (*cleanup)(struct hwrng *rng); + int (*data_present)(struct hwrng *rng); + int (*data_read)(struct hwrng *rng, u32 *data); + unsigned long priv; + + /* internal. */ + struct list_head list; +}; + +/** Register a new Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */ +extern int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng); +/** Unregister a Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */ +extern void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng); + +#endif /* __KERNEL__ */ +#endif /* LINUX_HWRANDOM_H_ */ |