From 60f3aaee7343b15f86bcfbb02384206d8a1900cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:55:56 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- 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. -- 2.7.4