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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2012-10-24 14:11:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-25 16:00:53 -0700
commit2008713c7174e5c0f207bac684c6df0939047009 (patch)
tree0442715e0de7522c33e9f4bc413e32b9fc6202a5 /kernel
parent6bb1e3819c08d640bc7e64fc522d7d8b1bc4d0b9 (diff)
Makefile: Documentation for external tool should be correct
If one includes documentation for an external tool, it should be correct. This is not: 1. Overriding the input to rngd should typically be neither necessary nor desired. This is especially so since newer versions of rngd support a number of different *types* of sources. 2. The default kernel-exported device is called /dev/hwrng not /dev/hwrandom nor /dev/hw_random (both of which were used in the past; however, kernel and udev seem to have converged on /dev/hwrng.) Overall it is better if the documentation for rngd is kept with rngd rather than in a kernel Makefile. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/Makefile6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 0dfeca4324e..86e3285ae7e 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -174,10 +174,8 @@ signing_key.priv signing_key.x509: x509.genkey
@echo "###"
@echo "### If this takes a long time, you might wish to run rngd in the"
@echo "### background to keep the supply of entropy topped up. It"
- @echo "### needs to be run as root, and should use a hardware random"
- @echo "### number generator if one is available, eg:"
- @echo "###"
- @echo "### rngd -r /dev/hwrandom"
+ @echo "### needs to be run as root, and uses a hardware random"
+ @echo "### number generator if one is available."
@echo "###"
openssl req -new -nodes -utf8 $(sign_key_with_hash) -days 36500 -batch \
-x509 -config x509.genkey \