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diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
index 17c1df8c909a..1fe006f3f12f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
@@ -528,15 +528,15 @@ endif # HW_RANDOM
config UML_RANDOM
depends on UML
- tristate "Hardware random number generator"
+ select HW_RANDOM
+ tristate "UML Random Number Generator support"
help
This option enables UML's "hardware" random number generator. It
attaches itself to the host's /dev/random, supplying as much entropy
as the host has, rather than the small amount the UML gets from its
- own drivers. It registers itself as a standard hardware random number
- generator, major 10, minor 183, and the canonical device name is
- /dev/hwrng.
- The way to make use of this is to install the rng-tools package
- (check your distro, or download from
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/). rngd periodically reads
- /dev/hwrng and injects the entropy into /dev/random.
+ own drivers. It registers itself as a rng-core driver thus providing
+ a device which is usually called /dev/hwrng. This hardware random
+ number generator does feed into the kernel's random number generator
+ entropy pool.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.