[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)
commit9863be598ed068613996af8da71d9fd976a0ab2d
treebfad62a054a067419172379aa4b8d65b256bd02f
parentf73ca1b76c6880b934d3ef566c1592efc80bb759
[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