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    Makefile: Documentation for external tool should be correct · 2008713c
    H. Peter Anvin authored
    
    
    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: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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