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Message-Id: <D66229C0-8768-42BD-87DA-83FAA2328E40@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:54:35 -0600
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>
To:	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@...sol.com>,
	linux-arm-msm <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 Feb 20, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org> wrote:

> 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

Fair point.

- k


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