linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] No longer default to HW_RANDOM when UML

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Message-ID: <Z6iB3Z_hxqHuJNP4@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 18:22:21 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	olivia@...enic.com, didi.debian@...ow.org, heiko@...ech.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] No longer default to HW_RANDOM when UML_RANDOM is
 the trigger

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 02:06:59PM +0100, Dragan Simic wrote:
> This is a small patch series that makes the already existing HW_RANDOM_*
> options in the hw_random Kconfig selected by default only when the
> UML_RANDOM option isn't already selected.  Having the HW_RANDOM_* options
> selected doesn't make much sense for user-mode Linux (UML), which obviously
> cannot make use of any HWRNG devices.
> 
> Along the way, some additional trivial cleanups of the hw_random Kconfig
> file are also performed as spotted, in separate patches.
> 
> Dragan Simic (3):
>   hwrng: Use tabs as leading whitespace consistently in Kconfig
>   hwrng: Move one "tristate" Kconfig description to the usual place
>   hwrng: Don't default to HW_RANDOM when UML_RANDOM is the trigger
> 
>  drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 84 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

Patches 1-2 applied.  Thanks.
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