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Commit e50058c2 authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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random: fix sysctl documentation nits 



commit 069c4ea6871c18bd368f27756e0f91ffb524a788 upstream.

A semicolon was missing, and the almost-alphabetical-but-not ordering
was confusing, so regroup these by category instead.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent f34af323

Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt

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@@ -835,6 +835,9 @@ This is a directory, with the following entries: 
* ``boot_id``: a UUID generated the first time this is retrieved, and

  unvarying after that;



* ``uuid``: a UUID generated every time this is retrieved (this can

  thus be used to generate UUIDs at will);



* ``entropy_avail``: the pool's entropy count, in bits;



* ``poolsize``: the entropy pool size, in bits;
@@ -842,10 +845,7 @@ This is a directory, with the following entries: 
* ``urandom_min_reseed_secs``: obsolete (used to determine the minimum

  number of seconds between urandom pool reseeding). This file is

  writable for compatibility purposes, but writing to it has no effect

  on any RNG behavior.



* ``uuid``: a UUID generated every time this is retrieved (this can

  thus be used to generate UUIDs at will);

  on any RNG behavior;



* ``write_wakeup_threshold``: when the entropy count drops below this

  (as a number of bits), processes waiting to write to ``/dev/random``