Re: [PATCH] hwrng: do not warn when there are no devices

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On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:00:17PM -0700, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> in order to make tpm-rng react in the way you're implying, the TPM
> subsystem would need to add a notification chain for transitions from
> none<->some devices, then tpm-rng could subscribe to that, and during
> those transition points, it would call hwrng_register/hwrng_unregister
> to make itself visible accordingly to the hwrng subsystem.  maybe
> someone on the TPM side would be interested in writing all that logic,
> but it sounds excessive for this minor usage.  the current tpm-rng
> driver is *extremely* simple -- it's 3 funcs, each of which are 1
> line.

It's simple and it's broken, as far as the way it hooks into the
hwrng is concerned.

Cheers,
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