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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig')
| -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 e92c4d9469d8..5952210526aa 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig @@ -540,15 +540,15 @@ 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. |