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authorPrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>2017-07-21 22:55:56 +0530
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2017-08-03 13:52:45 +0800
commit60f3aaee7343b15f86bcfbb02384206d8a1900cd (patch)
tree155e0807fc6faaff98ab77c4eb01960c94022907 /drivers/char
parent6a8487a1f29fa2801a530200c6cdf81592b1a4d7 (diff)
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 <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
index 1b223c32a8ae..2f45e1532670 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.