| Message ID | 20170721172556.6877-1-prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Delegated to: | Herbert Xu |
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PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> wrote: > Modify Kconfig help text to reflect the fact that random data from hwrng > is fed into kernel random number generator's entropy pool. > > Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> Patch applied. Thanks.
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig index 1b223c3..2f45e15 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig @@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ menuconfig HW_RANDOM that's usually called /dev/hwrng, and which exposes one of possibly several hardware random number generators. - These hardware random number generators do not feed directly - into the kernel's random number generator. That is usually - handled by the "rngd" daemon. Documentation/hw_random.txt - has more information. + These hardware random number generators do feed into the + kernel's random number generator entropy pool. If unsure, say Y.
Modify Kconfig help text to reflect the fact that random data from hwrng is fed into kernel random number generator's entropy pool. Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> --- drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)