Re: [PATCH v9 2/7] firmware: hwrng: arm_smccc_trng: Register as an SMCCC device
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-08-28 19:35:17
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[ ... 58 lines skipped ... ]@@ -94,29 +96,37 @@ static int smccc_trng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *data, size_t max, bool wait) return copied; } -static int smccc_trng_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) +static int smccc_trng_probe(struct arm_smccc_device *sdev) { struct hwrng *trng; - trng = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*trng), GFP_KERNEL); + /* validate the minimum version requirement */ + if (!smccc_probe_trng()) + return -ENODEV;
It feels like slightly poor practice to do this.. It is doing three things: 1) ARM32 disables this entirely for some reason, shouldn't the bus do it? Maybe it already does? 2) Checks the API exists and checks but the bus already did this. 3) Checks the version number Maybe the bus should capture the version output and pass it in as an argument to probe so the driver can do the min version check directly? It is very minor anyhow, it looks OK Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> -- Jason