Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:25:06 +0000 From: Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r274739 - head/sys/mips/conf Message-ID: <AE8F2D30-7F91-4C90-B79A-D99857D8AED8@grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20141120084832.GE24601@funkthat.com> References: <201411200552.sAK5qnXP063073@svn.freebsd.org> <20141120084832.GE24601@funkthat.com>
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> On 20 Nov 2014, at 08:48, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: >=20 > Should we make random standard now? We don't live in the 90's = anymore, > and a system really can't function w/o randomness anymore=E2=80=A6 There is a case to be made for making it default in all/most kernel configs. I disagree on making it compulsory in all cases, as very small embedded systems can easily argue for not having it. > I'm fine w/ making the various random mixers options, but the core > random infrastructure and /dev/u?random should be standard now=E2=80=A6 There is some compulsory infrastructure; this gets you the =E2=80=9Cdummy=E2= =80=9D driver which just blocks and never delivers anything. M --=20 Mark R V Murray
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