On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 02:23 +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:01:29 -0500, Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Not clear to me how this works when this is a module? > > > > > > This patch add a registration of a platform device for RNG to vmlinux. > > > And the other patch add a driver module for the RNG. This strategy is > > > fairly common for SoCs or embedded platforms. > > > > If your driver is built as a module (which your patch allows), the above > > won't work, right? > > No, the rng driver can be used regardless of module or built-in, as > like as other platform drivers. Any special issue for hw_rng? I found the source of my confusion: you've given the init function in both files exactly the same name. So when I saw .._init at the bottom of the second patch, I assumed it was referring to the possibly not loaded driver's init code. -- http://selenic.com : development and support for Mercurial and Linux
