[PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default
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Date: 2016-08-09 07:02:46
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linux-wireless
Subsystem:
atheros ath generic utilities, qualcomm atheros ath9k wireless driver, the rest · Maintainers:
Jeff Johnson, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen, Linus Torvalds
From: Miaoqing Pan <redacted> ath9k RNG will dominates all the noise sources from the real HW RNG, disable it by default. But we strongly recommand to enable it if the system without HW RNG, especially on embedded systems. Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <redacted> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
index f68cb00..8f231c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ config ATH9K_HTC_DEBUGFS config ATH9K_HWRNG bool "Random number generator support" depends on ATH9K && (HW_RANDOM = y || HW_RANDOM = ATH9K) - default y + default n ---help--- This option incorporates the ADC register output as a source of randomness into Linux entropy pool (/dev/urandom and /dev/random)
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