hwrng: add per-device entropy derating
This patch introduces a derating factor to struct hwrng for the random bits going into the kernel input pool, and a common default derating for drivers which do not specify one. Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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* @read: New API. drivers can fill up to max bytes of data
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* into the buffer. The buffer is aligned for any type.
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* @priv: Private data, for use by the RNG driver.
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* @quality: Estimation of true entropy in RNG's bitstream
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* (per mill).
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*/
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struct hwrng {
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const char *name;
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@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ struct hwrng {
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int (*data_read)(struct hwrng *rng, u32 *data);
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int (*read)(struct hwrng *rng, void *data, size_t max, bool wait);
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unsigned long priv;
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unsigned short quality;
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/* internal. */
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struct list_head list;
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