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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-12-17 17:56:44 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-12-17 17:56:44 -0800 |
commit | 345b17acb1aa7a443741d9220f66b30d5ddd7c39 (patch) | |
tree | 8f75bc2b08540b47fc8c66a262f8add6bbad70eb /drivers/char/hw_random | |
parent | 787fec8ac15cc693b9a7bc1b4a338b92483d993c (diff) | |
parent | 1fb1abc83636f5329c26cd29f0f19f3faeb697a5 (diff) |
Merge tag 'for-linus-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml
Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:
- IRQ handling cleanups
- Support for suspend
- Various fixes for UML specific drivers: ubd, vector, xterm
* tag 'for-linus-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: (32 commits)
um: Fix build w/o CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
um: time-travel: Correct time event IRQ delivery
um: irq/sigio: Support suspend/resume handling of workaround IRQs
um: time-travel: Actually apply "free-until" optimisation
um: chan_xterm: Fix fd leak
um: tty: Fix handling of close in tty lines
um: Monitor error events in IRQ controller
um: allocate a guard page to helper threads
um: support some of ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
um: time-travel: avoid multiple identical propagations
um: Fetch registers only for signals which need them
um: Support suspend to RAM
um: Allow PM with suspend-to-idle
um: time: Fix read_persistent_clock64() in time-travel
um: Simplify os_idle_sleep() and sleep longer
um: Simplify IRQ handling code
um: Remove IRQ_NONE type
um: irq: Reduce irq_reg allocation
um: irq: Clean up and rename struct irq_fd
um: Clean up alarm IRQ chip name
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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig index 17c1df8c909a..1fe006f3f12f 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig @@ -528,15 +528,15 @@ endif # HW_RANDOM config UML_RANDOM depends on UML - tristate "Hardware random number generator" + select HW_RANDOM + tristate "UML Random Number Generator support" help This option enables UML's "hardware" random number generator. It attaches itself to the host's /dev/random, supplying as much entropy as the host has, rather than the small amount the UML gets from its - own drivers. It registers itself as a standard hardware random number - generator, major 10, minor 183, and the canonical device name is - /dev/hwrng. - The way to make use of this is to install the rng-tools package - (check your distro, or download from - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/). rngd periodically reads - /dev/hwrng and injects the entropy into /dev/random. + own drivers. It registers itself as a rng-core driver thus providing + a device which is usually called /dev/hwrng. This hardware random + number generator does feed into the kernel's random number generator + entropy pool. + + If unsure, say Y. |