[PATCH 0/4] n2rng: add support for m5/m7 rng register layout

2017-01-12 Thread Shannon Nelson
are layout changed and self-test would now fail, continually spewing error messages on the console. This patch series adds correct support for the new rng register layout, and adds a limiter to the spewing of error messages. Orabug: 25127795 Shannon Nelson (4): n2rng: limit error spewage when self-

[PATCH 4/4] n2rng: update version info

2017-01-12 Thread Shannon Nelson
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nel...@oracle.com> --- drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c |8 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c index f0bd5ee..31cbdbb 100644 --- a/driver

[PATCH 1/4] n2rng: limit error spewage when self-test fails

2017-01-12 Thread Shannon Nelson
If the self-test fails, it probably won't actually suddenly start working. Currently, this causes an endless spew of error messages on the console and in the logs, so this patch adds a limiter to the test. Reported-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varad...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon

[PATCH 2/4] n2rng: add device data descriptions

2017-01-12 Thread Shannon Nelson
Since we're going to need to keep track of more than just one attribute of the hardware, we'll change the use of the data field from the match struct from a single flag to a struct pointer. This patch adds the struct template and initial descriptions. Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.

[PATCH 3/4] n2rng: support new hardware register layout

2017-01-12 Thread Shannon Nelson
Add the new register layout constants and the requisite logic for using them. Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nel...@oracle.com> --- drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c | 144 +-- drivers/char/hw_random/n2rng.h | 36 +++--- 2 files change

Re: console noise after commit c1e9b3b0eea

2017-01-04 Thread Shannon Nelson
Resurrecting an old thread, pulled out of http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg19192.html On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Sowmini Varadhan wrote: Hi Anatoly, after commit

Re: [PATCH 2/2] n2rng: Combine substrings for two messages in n2rng_probe()

2017-04-19 Thread Shannon Nelson
urce code places. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net> Thanks Markus. Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nel...@oracle.com> --- drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c | 8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_ra

Re: [PATCH 1/2] n2rng: Use devm_kcalloc() in n2rng_probe()

2017-04-19 Thread Shannon Nelson
Thanks Markus. Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nel...@oracle.com> --- drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c index 31cbdbbaebfc..92dd4e925315 100644 --- a/dri