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>

diff --git a/utils/rng-tools/Makefile b/utils/rng-tools/Makefile
index 8ec18c2ce5d8a704bf5bdef78c05aeef18990880..b97cbf2ae2b45225cfacb115c398c0894a4dc23f 100644 (file)
--- 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 805559c4c405e3d25a3ca7f6740a1a8d5c85bf2a..e9fba9097b796ddecc5422c793ee10973edb3fdc 100644 (file)
--- 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