[PATCH 1/1] doc: random number generation
Heinrich Schuchardt
xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Sat Jun 13 12:53:48 CEST 2020
Add random number generation APIs to the HTML documentation.
Fix style issues.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
doc/api/index.rst | 1 +
doc/api/rng.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
include/rand.h | 6 +++---
include/rng.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
5 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 doc/api/rng.rst
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 1fd975c72f..00985c0e8e 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -877,6 +877,7 @@ M: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
R: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
S: Maintained
F: cmd/rng.c
+F: doc/api/rng.rst
F: drivers/rng/
F: drivers/virtio/virtio_rng.c
F: include/rng.h
diff --git a/doc/api/index.rst b/doc/api/index.rst
index fd3b5bdc82..b7eb5725f2 100644
--- a/doc/api/index.rst
+++ b/doc/api/index.rst
@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ U-Boot API documentation
dfu
efi
linker_lists
+ rng
serial
unicode
diff --git a/doc/api/rng.rst b/doc/api/rng.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b826d4fd4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/api/rng.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+.. Copyright (c) 2018 Heinrich Schuchardt
+
+Random number generation
+========================
+
+Hardware random number generation
+---------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/rng.h
+ :internal:
+
+Pseudo random number generation
+-------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/rand.h
+ :internal:
diff --git a/include/rand.h b/include/rand.h
index c9d15f50a1..4c54fbbd10 100644
--- a/include/rand.h
+++ b/include/rand.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ void srand(unsigned int seed);
/**
* rand() - Get a 32-bit pseudo-random number
*
- * @returns next random number in the sequence
+ * Return: next random number in the sequence
*/
unsigned int rand(void);
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ unsigned int rand(void);
* This version of the function allows multiple sequences to be used at the
* same time, since it requires the caller to store the seed value.
*
- * @seed value to use, updated on exit
- * @returns next random number in the sequence
+ * @seedp: seed value to use, updated on exit
+ * Return: next random number in the sequence
*/
unsigned int rand_r(unsigned int *seedp);
diff --git a/include/rng.h b/include/rng.h
index d2c0f9af62..37af554363 100644
--- a/include/rng.h
+++ b/include/rng.h
@@ -10,22 +10,32 @@ struct udevice;
/**
* dm_rng_read() - read a random number seed from the rng device
- * @buffer: input buffer to put the read random seed into
- * @size: number of bytes of random seed read
*
- * Return: 0 if OK, -ve on error
+ * The function blocks until the requested number of bytes is read.
+ *
+ * @dev: random number generator device
+ * @buffer: input buffer to put the read random seed into
+ * @size: number of random bytes to read
+ * Return: 0 if OK, -ve on error
*/
int dm_rng_read(struct udevice *dev, void *buffer, size_t size);
-/* struct dm_rng_ops - Operations for the hwrng uclass */
+/**
+ * struct dm_rng_ops - operations for the hwrng uclass
+ *
+ * This structures contains the function implemented by a hardware random
+ * number generation device.
+ */
struct dm_rng_ops {
/**
- * @read() - read a random number seed
+ * @read: read a random bytes
*
- * @data: input buffer to read the random seed
- * @max: total number of bytes to read
+ * The function blocks until the requested number of bytes is read.
*
- * Return: 0 if OK, -ve on error
+ * @read.dev: random number generator device
+ * @read.data: input buffer to read the random seed into
+ * @read.max: number of random bytes to read
+ * @read.Return: 0 if OK, -ve on error
*/
int (*read)(struct udevice *dev, void *data, size_t max);
};
--
2.27.0
More information about the U-Boot
mailing list