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commit 069c4ea upstream.

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

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Expand Up @@ -1006,17 +1006,17 @@ 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;

* ``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``
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