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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -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 6bbd4fa50f3b..8d6c2089d2a8 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. |