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hwrng: Kconfig - Correct help text about feeding entropy pool
authorPrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:25:56 +0000 (22:55 +0530)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Thu, 3 Aug 2017 05:52:45 +0000 (13:52 +0800)
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>
drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig

index 1b223c32a8ae72f7b00bd7280ad275642a48414b..2f45e1532670eab91dd4438c8a8365b26f6b3702 100644 (file)
@@ -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.