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diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
index e0135873ba9d..0689bf6b0183 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
@@ -235,3 +235,18 @@ config HW_RANDOM_PPC4XX
          module will be called ppc4xx-rng.
 
          If unsure, say N.
+
+config UML_RANDOM
+        depends on UML
+        tristate "Hardware random number generator"
+        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.