From e77de68fbef6b8715dd1189a13bbfeee0e50e426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannu Nyman Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:25:34 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- utils/rng-tools/Makefile | 8 +++++++- 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