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Date:      Sun, 1 Dec 2019 19:09:19 -0800
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Killing RANDOM_LOADABLE?
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On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 6:42 PM Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote:
> Per my followup, we are no longer using RANDOM_LOADABLE,
> we preload the selected module.  So long as that functionality is not
> broken we should be ok.

If your preload system does not use RANDOM_LOADABLE, then perhaps
there aren't any consumers.  That'd be great.  I don't intend to
change loader(8) preloading or the kernel linker in relation to this
topic.

> Since we haven't used it for a couple of years I'd hope we would not be
> impacted but I know we've been bitten in the past by changes in the random
> infra, though I don't recall the detail - will check with some other
> folk.

Thanks for checking, I appreciate it.

Best,
Conrad



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