[PATCH] crypto: Kconfig: Correct help text about feeding entropy pool
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From: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <hidden>
Date: 2017-07-21 17:27:10
Subsystem:
hardware random number generator core, the rest · Maintainers:
Olivia Mackall, Herbert Xu, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- 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.
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