Re: [PATCH 3/5] hwrng: amd: Be consitent with the driver name

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 06:58:11PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 03:42:55PM +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:

quoted

The driver name is displayed each time differently.
This patch make use of the same name everywhere.

Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/amd-rng.c | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/amd-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/amd-rng.c
index d0042f5..d0a806a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/amd-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/amd-rng.c

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
-#define PFX	KBUILD_MODNAME ": "
+#define DRV_NAME "AMD768-HWRNG"
 
 /*
  * Data for PCI driver interface

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static void amd_rng_cleanup(struct hwrng *rng)
 }
 
 static struct hwrng amd_rng = {
-	.name		= "amd",
+	.name		= DRV_NAME,

Hmm, this changes a sysfs-exported name which has the potential
to break user-space.  So I think you'd need to a stronger argument
to do it other than just cleaning it up.

amd is really really too generic.

But if you still NACK that (and I understand perfectly why), I will update my series.

Regards