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hwrng: n2 - limit error spewage when self-test fails
authorShannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:52:46 +0000 (10:52 -0800)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Thu, 6 Apr 2017 07:13:48 +0000 (00:13 -0700)
commita6309756cf44933bcfd888535e3ca7d951e6b316
tree412f96d8078b9cad3b6648c993c63fd2e6b1e476
parent1c481a58557380e1e4f7369863f4974016f835f5
hwrng: n2 - limit error spewage when self-test fails

If the self-test fails, it probably won't actually suddenly
start working.  Currently, this causes an endless spew of
error messages on the console and in the logs, so this patch
adds a limiter to the test.

Orabug: 25127795

Reported-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
(cherry picked from commit db602a7f940a71870c17e39bcbe4e4d7a4a8273e)
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.pais@oracle.com>
drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c