From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: hw_random: Fix issue related to feeding entropy pool Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:17:49 +0800 Message-ID: <20170922091749.GA15902@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20170822161544.24958-1-prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: corbet@lwn.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com To: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170822161544.24958-1-prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote: > There is no need to use rng-tools for feeding random data into kernel > entropy pool as hw_random core handles it. Documentation suggested that > rng-tools is required which is incorrect. So remove it. > > Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan Hmm, the tool still exists and can still be used to feed /dev/random. Feeding /dev/random directly from the kernel is just one way of using hwrng. So rather than removing it perhaps you can modify it to state that the kernel can now feed /dev/random as an option. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt