Subject: [PATCH] crypto: 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 <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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.

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2.10.0


2017-08-03 06:25:40

by Herbert Xu

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: Kconfig: Correct help text about feeding entropy pool

PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>

Patch applied. Thanks.
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