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| author |   PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> | 2017-07-21 22:55:56 +0530 |
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| committer |   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2017-08-03 13:52:45 +0800 |
| commit | 60f3aaee7343b15f86bcfbb02384206d8a1900cd (patch) | |
| tree | 155e0807fc6faaff98ab77c4eb01960c94022907 /drivers/char | |
| parent | crypto: scompress - defer allocation of scratch buffer to first use (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-60f3aaee7343b15f86bcfbb02384206d8a1900cd.tar.xz linux-dev-60f3aaee7343b15f86bcfbb02384206d8a1900cd.zip | |
hwrng: Kconfig - Correct help text about feeding entropy pool
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>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig index 1b223c32a8ae..2f45e1532670 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. |