linux-kernel - Default Kconfig state for hw

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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:42:29 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Default Kconfig state for hw_random drivers

An Atmel hw_random driver just appeared in -next.  Since it's just a
regular platform device it has no dependencies on any particular
platform so following the behaviour of other hw_random drivers it's set
to default enabled if hw_random is enabled, even on non-Atmel platforms.

This doesn't feel like the right thing to do - it'd mean that most of
the embedded RNGs would end up getting enabled by default which probably
isn't what we want.

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