From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: cavium: Use per device name to allow for multiple
 devices.
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:56:46 +0800
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 02:28:46PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> Systems containing the Cavium HW RNG may have one device per NUMA
> node.  A typical configuration is a 2-node NUMA system, which results
> in 2 RNG devices.  The hwrng subsystem refuses (and rightly so) to
> register more than one device with he same name, so we get failure
> messages on these systems.
> 
> Make the hwrng name unique by including the underlying device name.
> Also remove spaces from the name to make it possible to switch devices
> via the sysfs knobs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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