From: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan Subject: [PATCH] crypto: Kconfig: Correct help text about feeding entropy pool Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:55:56 +0530 Message-ID: <20170721172556.6877-1-prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> Cc: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f193.google.com ([209.85.192.193]:35756 "EHLO mail-pf0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752048AbdGUR1K (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:27:10 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-f193.google.com with SMTP id q85so5256973pfq.2 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 --- 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. -- 2.10.0