Re: [PATCH] hwrng: cavium: Use per device name to allow for multiple devices.

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat Feb 11 2017 - 13:59:40 EST


On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 02:28:46PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> Systems containing the Cavium HW RNG may have one device per NUMA
> node. A typical configuration is a 2-node NUMA system, which results
> in 2 RNG devices. The hwrng subsystem refuses (and rightly so) to
> register more than one device with he same name, so we get failure
> messages on these systems.
>
> Make the hwrng name unique by including the underlying device name.
> Also remove spaces from the name to make it possible to switch devices
> via the sysfs knobs.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied. Thanks.
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