Hi Herbert, On 22 September 2017 at 14:47, Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmku...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 <prasannatsmku...@gmail.com> > > Hmm, the tool still exists and can still be used to feed /dev/random. > > Feeding /dev/random directly from the kernel is just one way of > using hwrng.
But it is the default way. > So rather than removing it perhaps you can modify it to state that > the kernel can now feed /dev/random as an option. As it is not required I think stating it is going to create confusion. Users may not know whether rng-tools is optional or necessary for feeding kernel entropy pool. Thanks, PrasannaKumar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
