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

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  Re: [PATCH] hwrng: cavium: Use per device name to allow for multiple  devices. Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-02-11 20:00 +0100

#1579079 — Re: [PATCH] hwrng: cavium: Use per device name to allow for multiple devices.

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@cavium.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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