Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: msm - Add support for prng v2

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On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 07:42:59PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> Qcom 8996 and later chips support prng v2 where we need to only
> implement .read callback for hwrng.
> 
> Add a new table for v2 which supports this and get version required for
> driver data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>

Is this really a pseudo-RNG? If so it needs to be moved over to
the algif_rng interface.

hwrng is for true hardware RNGs only, because it may be directly
fed into /dev/random.

Thanks,
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