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The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart
from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks.
To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return
void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to
.remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers
are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().
Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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The DT of_device.h and of_platform.h date back to the separate
of_platform_bus_type before it was merged into the regular platform bus.
As part of that merge prepping Arm DT support 13 years ago, they
"temporarily" include each other. They also include platform_device.h
and of.h. As a result, there's a pretty much random mix of those include
files used throughout the tree. In order to detangle these headers and
replace the implicit includes with struct declarations, users need to
explicitly include the correct includes.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Most hw_random devices return entropy which is assumed to be of full
quality, but driver authors don't bother setting the quality knob. Some
hw_random devices return less than full quality entropy, and then driver
authors set the quality knob. Therefore, the entropy crediting should be
opt-out rather than opt-in per-driver, to reflect the actual reality on
the ground.
For example, the two Raspberry Pi RNG drivers produce full entropy
randomness, and both EDK2 and U-Boot's drivers for these treat them as
such. The result is that EFI then uses these numbers and passes the to
Linux, and Linux credits them as boot, thereby initializing the RNG.
Yet, in Linux, the quality knob was never set to anything, and so on the
chance that Linux is booted without EFI, nothing is ever credited.
That's annoying.
The same pattern appears to repeat itself throughout various drivers. In
fact, very very few drivers have bothered setting quality=1024.
Looking at the git history of existing drivers and corresponding mailing
list discussion, this conclusion tracks. There's been a decent amount of
discussion about drivers that set quality < 1024 -- somebody read and
interepreted a datasheet, or made some back of the envelope calculation
somehow. But there's been very little, if any, discussion about most
drivers where the quality is just set to 1024 or unset (or set to 1000
when the authors misunderstood the API and assumed it was base-10 rather
than base-2); in both cases the intent was fairly clear of, "this is a
hardware random device; it's fine."
So let's invert this logic. A hw_random struct's quality knob now
controls the maximum quality a driver can produce, or 0 to specify 1024.
Then, the module-wide switch called "default_quality" is changed to
represent the maximum quality of any driver. By default it's 1024, and
the quality of any particular driver is then given by:
min(default_quality, rng->quality ?: 1024);
This way, the user can still turn this off for weird reasons (and we can
replace whatever driver-specific disabling hacks existed in the past),
yet we get proper crediting for relevant RNGs.
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Adding RNG NPCM8XX support to NPCM RNG driver.
RNG NPCM8XX uses a different clock prescaler.
As part of adding NPCM8XX support:
- Add NPCM8XX specific compatible string.
- Add data to handle architecture specific clock prescaler.
Signed-off-by: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Modify the read size to the correct HW random
registers size, 8bit.
The incorrect read size caused and faulty
HW random value.
Signed-off-by: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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This patch fixes an unused variable warning when this driver is
built-in with CONFIG_OF=n.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Use devm_platform_ioremap_resource() to simplify the code a bit.
This is detected by coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Add Nuvoton NPCM BMC Random Number Generator(RNG) driver.
Signed-off-by: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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