From: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, corbet@lwn.net,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: hw_random: Fix issue related to feeding entropy pool
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:45:44 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170822161544.24958-1-prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> (raw)
There is no need to use rng-tools for feeding random data into kernel
entropy pool as hw_random core handles it. Documentation suggested that
rng-tools is required which is incorrect. So remove it.
Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/hw_random.txt | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/hw_random.txt b/Documentation/hw_random.txt
index 121de96..46b2480 100644
--- a/Documentation/hw_random.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hw_random.txt
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ hw_random driver's official Web site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
-Those tools use /dev/hwrng to fill the kernel entropy pool,
-which is used internally and exported by the /dev/urandom and
-/dev/random special files.
-
Theory of operation
===================
--
2.10.0
next reply other threads:[~2017-08-22 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-22 16:15 PrasannaKumar Muralidharan [this message]
2017-09-22 9:17 ` [PATCH] Documentation: hw_random: Fix issue related to feeding entropy pool Herbert Xu
2017-09-22 9:29 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
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