From: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
To: mpm@selenic.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TXx9: Add TX4939 RNG support
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:23:35 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090601.022335.200392387.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243789289.22069.25.camel@calx>
On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:01:29 -0500, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> > > Not clear to me how this works when this is a module?
> >
> > This patch add a registration of a platform device for RNG to vmlinux.
> > And the other patch add a driver module for the RNG. This strategy is
> > fairly common for SoCs or embedded platforms.
>
> If your driver is built as a module (which your patch allows), the above
> won't work, right?
No, the rng driver can be used regardless of module or built-in, as
like as other platform drivers. Any special issue for hw_rng?
---
Atsushi Nemoto
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-31 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 15:02 [PATCH] TXx9: Add TX4939 RNG support Atsushi Nemoto
[not found] ` <1243642882.8020.9.camel@calx>
2009-05-31 16:57 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2009-05-31 17:01 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-31 17:23 ` Atsushi Nemoto [this message]
2009-05-31 17:32 ` Matt Mackall
2009-06-02 14:13 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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