From: Kieran Bingham Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] hwrng: Kconfig: Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrng Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:19:38 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1442497557-9271-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <1442497557-9271-3-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, peter@korsgaard.com, festevam@gmail.com, kernel@stlinux.com To: Lee Jones Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1442497557-9271-3-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On 17 September 2015 at 14:45, Lee Jones wrote: > In April 2009, commit d405640 ("Driver Core: misc: add node name support > for misc devices.") inadvertently changed the device node name from > /dev/hw_random to /dev/hwrng. Since 6 years has passed since the change > it seems unpractical to change it back, as this node name is probably > considered ABI by now. So instead, we'll just change the Kconfig help > to match the current situation. > > NB: It looks like rng-tools have already been updated. > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Acked-by: Kieran Bingham > --- > drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig > index f48cf11..8998108 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ menuconfig HW_RANDOM > > To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the > module will be called rng-core. This provides a device > - that's usually called /dev/hw_random, and which exposes one > + that's usually called /dev/hwrng, and which exposes one > of possibly several hardware random number generators. > > These hardware random number generators do not feed directly > -- > 1.9.1 >