Re: [PATCH v2] ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Wed Feb 16 2022 - 05:43:27 EST


Hi Florian,

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:13 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You will have to give this instance an unique name because there can be
> multiple ath9k adapters registered in a given system (like Wi-Fi
> routers), and one of the first thing hwrng_register() does is ensure
> that there is not an existing rng with the same name.
>
> Maybe using a combination of ath9k + dev_name() ought to be unique enough?

Good point. Will do. dev_name() probably won't cut it because of
namespaces, but I can always just attach a counter. Will do that for
v3.

Jason