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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-04-03 14:33:42 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-04-03 14:33:42 -0700 |
| commit | 3bb5da3837cc1aa17736b05139c9a22c3794851a (patch) | |
| tree | c92d5684a866542b1cb20641607ac1643ce03a47 /drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | |
| parent | 7feb49c82a74bc7c091b8ab2a3f96baa33d08ece (diff) | |
| parent | 9597362d354f8655ece324b01d0c640a0e99c077 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig index 6bbd4fa50f3..8d6c2089d2a 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig @@ -9,7 +9,14 @@ config HW_RANDOM Hardware Random Number Generator Core infrastructure. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the - module will be called rng-core. + module will be called rng-core. This provides a device + that's usually called /dev/hw_random, 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. If unsure, say Y. |