Re: [PATCH 1/1 linux-next] hwrng: update Freescale i.MX RNGA Random Number Generator
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Aug 16 2016 - 05:57:33 EST
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:04:45PM +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
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>
> > On 15 August 2016 at 17:05 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Friday 12 August 2016, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> > > We can directly depend on SOC_IMX31 since
> > > commit c9ee94965dce
> > > ("ARM: imx: deconstruct mxc_rnga initialization")
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Did I cause a regression with my patch, without this change? If so, this
> > should be
> > marked
> >
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: c9ee94965dce ("ARM: imx: deconstruct mxc_rnga initialization")
> >
> > and the patch applied ASAP.
>
> Thanks Arnd. Your patch brings the following regression:
> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_MXC_RNGA can't be switched on with an unknown symbol and
> mxc-rnga.o will never build with
> ARCH=arm make M=drivers/char/hw_random
> Before your patch, HW_RANDOM_MXC_RNGA required ARCH_HAS_RNGA
> which was based on IMX_HAVE_PLATFORM_MXC_RNGA && ARCH_MXC
> IMX_HAVE_PLATFORM_MXC_RNGA was based on SOC_IMX31.
> As I see SOC_IMX31 is selected by ARCH_MXC, my patch still seems ok and I can Cc
> it for stable.
Please resubmit the patch to linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks,
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