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Message-ID: <53064C89.4060206@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:42:17 -0500
From:	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>
CC:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, svarbanov@...sol.com,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hwrng: msm: switch Kconfig to ARCH_QCOM depends

On 02/20/2014 11:09 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> We've split Qualcomm MSM support into legacy and multiplatform.  The RNG
> driver is only relevant on the multiplatform supported SoCs so switch the
> Kconfig depends to ARCH_QCOM.
> 
> CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> CC: Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@...sol.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>
> ---
> 
> Herbert,
> 
> If you can ack this I'll send it via linux-qcom/arm-soc tree's
> 
> thanks
> 
> v2:
> * Updated help text to remove MSM references, made more generic
> 
>  drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
> index 2f2b084..f2b9f8c 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
> @@ -342,11 +342,11 @@ config HW_RANDOM_TPM
>  	  If unsure, say Y.
>  
>  config HW_RANDOM_MSM
> -	tristate "Qualcomm MSM Random Number Generator support"

> +	tristate "Qualcomm ARM SoCs Random Number Generator support"

Can the Hexagon use the PRNG, at least theoretically? If so maybe it'd be
clearest to leave ARM off.

Christopher

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