Re: [PATCH 1/2] Initial support for Allwinner's Security ID fuses

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 01:41:45 EST


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Oliver Schinagl
<oliver+list@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Oliver Schinagl <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Allwinner has electric fuses (efuse) on their line of chips. This driver
> reads those fuses, seeds the kernel entropy and exports them as a sysfs node.
>
> These fuses are most likly to be programmed at the factory, encoding
> things like Chip ID, some sort of serial number etc and appear to be
> reasonable unique.
> While in theory, these should be writeable by the user, it will probably
> be inconvinient to do so. Allwinner recommends that a certain input pin,
> labeled 'efuse_vddq', be connected to GND. To write these fuses, 2.5 V
> needs to be applied to this pin.
>
> Even so, they can still be used to generate a board-unique mac from, board
> unique RSA key and seed the kernel RNG.
>

> +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/sunxi_sid.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@

> +#include <linux/compiler.h>

I don't think you have to use this header explicitly.

> +#define DRV_NAME "sunxi-sid"

> + if (size > (SID_SIZE - pos))

Useless internal braces.

> +static int sunxi_sid_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> + device_remove_bin_file(&pdev->dev, &sid_bin_attr);
> + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s driver unloaded\n", DRV_NAME);

It's useless to use DRV_NAME in conjunction with dev_* macros. dev_*
will print driver name as a prefix.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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