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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:04:27 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] hwrng: arm-smccc-trng - transition to the faux
 device interface
Message-ID: <2025031748-deface-wasting-b635@gregkh>
References: <20250317-plat2faux_dev-v1-0-5fe67c085ad5@arm.com>
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:13:14AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> +MODULE_ALIAS("faux:smccc_trng");

Why do you need a branch new alias you just made up?  Please don't add
that for these types of devices, that's not going to work at all (just
like the platform alias really doesn't work well.

thanks,

greg k-h