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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index f0eea5fdc1b..fcda7d3937e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1170,8 +1170,9 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy_user(struct entropy_store *r, void __user *buf,
/*
* This function is the exported kernel interface. It returns some
* number of good random numbers, suitable for key generation, seeding
- * TCP sequence numbers, etc. It does not use the hw random number
- * generator, if available; use get_random_bytes_arch() for that.
+ * TCP sequence numbers, etc. It does not rely on the hardware random
+ * number generator. For random bytes direct from the hardware RNG
+ * (when available), use get_random_bytes_arch().
*/
void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes)
{