Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 07:59:11 +0100 From: Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r284959 - in head: . share/man/man4 share/man/man9 sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/hifn sys/dev/random sys/dev/rndtest sys/dev/safe sys/dev/syscons sys/dev/ubsec sys/dev/virtio/random sy... Message-ID: <5238A439-F25E-40F1-96D4-140460003982@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <13981.1435792025@chaos> References: <201506301700.t5UH0jPq001498@svn.freebsd.org> <13981.1435792025@chaos>
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> On 2 Jul 2015, at 00:07, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote: >=20 > Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org> wrote: >> * src/sys/dev/random/random_adaptors.c = src/sys/dev/random/random_adaptors.h >> - Remove; plugability is no longer used. Compile-time algorithm >> selection is the way to go. >=20 > Errr we use that and need it. > Please put it back. Do you really need full the plugability (including run-time selection of = algorithm), or do you just need to have KLD modules back? I intend to do the latter, but in a different way. The adaptor code and = run-time section was a locking liability. > Whether we agree with NIST's ideas about how randomness should be > handled or not, we need to to be able to comply and we do not want to > burn their desired arrangement into our kernels. Sound like you just need to be able to select a single KLD at boot time? M --=20 Mark R V Murray
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