Make it possible to unregister a Hardware Random Number Generator
device object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Handle waiting for new random within the drivers themselves, this allows to
use better suited timeouts for the individual rngs.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This also ment that some of the misc drivers had to also be fixed
up as they were assuming the device was a class_device.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const. Making
them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section
so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper
debug option they are then protected against corruption..
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki
Patrick McHardy
Al Viro
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Arjan van de Ven
Michael Buesch