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| author | Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi> | 2016-09-22 14:25:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi> | 2016-09-22 14:25:34 +0300 |
| commit | e77de68fbef6b8715dd1189a13bbfeee0e50e426 (patch) | |
| tree | d22672b4f553bfd34d5e12959348a0d8b71c9316 | |
| parent | 54e4a971f7b4efbbc8cf9a2fca2dfc34a2e8544c (diff) | |
rng-tools: Add description, remove unused parameter
* Add description to both Makefile and init script that
mentions the default of /dev/urandom as the entropy source.
* Remove the deprecated interval parameter from init script.
Signed-off-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
| -rw-r--r-- | utils/rng-tools/Makefile | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | utils/rng-tools/files/rngd.init | 2 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/utils/rng-tools/Makefile b/utils/rng-tools/Makefile index 8ec18c2ce..b97cbf2ae 100644 --- a/utils/rng-tools/Makefile +++ b/utils/rng-tools/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk PKG_NAME:=rng-tools PKG_VERSION:=5 -PKG_RELEASE:=2 +PKG_RELEASE:=3 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@SF/gkernel/rng-tools/$(PKG_VERSION)/ @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ define Package/rng-tools URL:=http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ endef +define Package/rng-tools/description +Daemon for adding entropy to kernel entropy pool. By default it uses +/dev/urandom as the source but the init script can be modified +to use a hardware source like /dev/hwrng if present +endef + ifdef CONFIG_USE_UCLIBC CONFIGURE_VARS += \ LIBS="-largp" diff --git a/utils/rng-tools/files/rngd.init b/utils/rng-tools/files/rngd.init index 805559c4c..e9fba9097 100644 --- a/utils/rng-tools/files/rngd.init +++ b/utils/rng-tools/files/rngd.init @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ START=98 -RNGD_INTERVAL=30 RNGD_AMOUNT=4000 RNGD_DEVICE="/dev/urandom" +# Use /dev/urandom as source, as hardware sources like /dev/hwrng are usually not present start() { service_start /sbin/rngd -r $RNGD_DEVICE -W $RNGD_AMOUNT |