Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 May 2013 17:27:32 +0200 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Initial support for Allwinner's Security ID fuses |
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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > On 05/23/13 16:58, Maxime Ripard wrote: > >On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > >>Then, i'm not sure if the driver is the best for this to be loaded? > >>Maxime, what do you think? Personally I would feel more in having > >>this in the mach-sunxi/core.c bit, but then again, this is currently > >>a module and wouldn't be useful to have there. Maxime is far more > >>knowledgeable to answer that. > > > >Hmmm, I don't understand what you mean here. Could you explain what you > >have in mind? > I've thought about it a little, and don't think core.c is a good > spot, since the module will have to be loaded, or available there. > And that's really early. > > So I guess, during probe, controlled by a parameter perhaps, load > all 16 bytes into the random pool as Linus suggested?
Yeah, though I don't really know what the parameter would be useful for, but yes, do it in the driver's probe.
-- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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