Commit 60f3aaee authored by PrasannaKumar Muralidharan's avatar PrasannaKumar Muralidharan Committed by Herbert Xu

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: default avatarPrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent 6a8487a1
...@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ menuconfig HW_RANDOM ...@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ menuconfig HW_RANDOM
that's usually called /dev/hwrng, and which exposes one that's usually called /dev/hwrng, and which exposes one
of possibly several hardware random number generators. of possibly several hardware random number generators.
These hardware random number generators do not feed directly These hardware random number generators do feed into the
into the kernel's random number generator. That is usually kernel's random number generator entropy pool.
handled by the "rngd" daemon. Documentation/hw_random.txt
has more information.
If unsure, say Y. If unsure, say Y.
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