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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig index e0135873ba9..0689bf6b018 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig @@ -235,3 +235,18 @@ config HW_RANDOM_PPC4XX module will be called ppc4xx-rng. If unsure, say N. + +config UML_RANDOM + depends on UML + tristate "Hardware random number generator" + 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. |