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* [PATCH] crypto: Kconfig: Correct help text about feeding entropy pool
@ 2017-07-21 17:25 PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
  2017-08-03  6:25 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan @ 2017-07-21 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: herbert, linux-crypto; +Cc: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan

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>
---
 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.
 
-- 
2.10.0

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* Re: [PATCH] crypto: Kconfig: Correct help text about feeding entropy pool
  2017-07-21 17:25 [PATCH] crypto: Kconfig: Correct help text about feeding entropy pool PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
@ 2017-08-03  6:25 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Herbert Xu @ 2017-08-03  6:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan; +Cc: linux-crypto, prasannatsmkumar

PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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