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| author | Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> | 2019-10-21 14:20:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2019-10-23 09:06:48 +0200 |
| commit | 4d4258d24b82ac4316702d173c1e3aaf3d361c35 (patch) | |
| tree | 98f46c41e80c72913ab082ad02130af8a467743f /drivers | |
| parent | 040e74a8b6cd316f9553b80aa8b1a7f83672bbed (diff) | |
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hwrng: dev-random: always use /dev/urandom
/dev/random can block long after boot time. It seems there's a consensus
that /dev/urandom is safe to use except for very early boot, which isn't
when barebox sandbox is usually run. To make the HWRNG more useful,
always use /dev/urandom.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hw_random/Kconfig | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/hw_random/Kconfig index c57928204d..242a7ef278 100644 --- a/drivers/hw_random/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/hw_random/Kconfig @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ config HWRNG_MXC_RNGC Generator hardware found on some Freescale i.MX processors. config HWRNG_DEV_RANDOM - tristate "Linux /dev/random and /dev/urandom RNG" + tristate "Linux /dev/urandom RNG" depends on SANDBOX default y help - This driver allows use of the host provided /dev/random - and /dev/urandom as barebox HWRNGs. + This driver allows use of the host provided /dev/urandom + as barebox HWRNGs. endif |