> On 2 Jul 2015, at 00:07, Simon J. Gerraty <s...@juniper.net> wrote:
> 
> Mark Murray <ma...@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.
> 
> 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
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Mark R V Murray

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