netdev - ath9k should perhaps use hw

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9r4+ENUhZ6u26rAbq0iCWoKqTPYA7=_LWbGG98KvaCE6g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:38:53 +0100
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     miaoqing@...eaurora.org, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        "Sepehrdad, Pouyan" <pouyans@....qualcomm.com>,
        ath9k-devel <ath9k-devel@....qualcomm.com>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Cc:     Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: ath9k should perhaps use hw_random api?

Hi Ath9k Maintainers,

I'm emailing you because I've noticed that ath9k's rng.c is the *only*
driver in the whole of the tree that calls
add_hwgenerator_randomness() directly, rather than going through
Herbert's hw_random API, as every single other hardware RNG does.

I'm wondering if you'd consider converting your driver into something
suitable for the hw_random API (in drivers/char/hw_random/), rather
than adhoc rolling your own ath9k rng kthread. Is this something
you're actively maintaining and would be interested in doing?

Regards,
Jason