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Date:      Sun, 02 Nov 2014 04:26:21 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@vfemail.net>
To:        Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r273872 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d libexec/save-entropy share/examples/kld/random_adaptor sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/modules sys/modules/padlock_rng sys/mo...
Message-ID:  <sii2-e10i-wny@vfemail.net>
In-Reply-To: <201410302121.s9ULLsEw055630@svn.freebsd.org> (Mark Murray's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:21:54 %2B0000 (UTC)")
References:  <201410302121.s9ULLsEw055630@svn.freebsd.org>

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Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Log:
>   This is the much-discussed major upgrade to the random(4) device,
> known to you all as /dev/random.
[...]
> Modified: head/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c
> ===================================================================
> --- head/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c	(revision 273871)
> +++ head/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c	(revision 273872)
[...]
> +MID_DEV_MODULE(yarrow, randomdev_soft_modevent, NULL);
> +MODULE_VERSION(yarrow, 1);
> +MODULE_DEPEND(yarrow, random_adaptors, 1, 1, 1);

I have a minimalistic kernel where everything is pushed to a module for
easier/faster debugging before kload. As its config has no |device random|
loading random.ko fails because nothing provides random_adaptors e.g., try

  $ grep -r MODULE_VERSION.\*random_adaptors sys/dev/random

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