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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