random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion

[Peter Wemm]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:23 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 4:20:29 pm Peter Wemm wrote:
[..]
> The counter to this is that in the recent past, any suggestion to add anything
> to DEFAULTS was met with "that's the wrong way".  In actual fact, changes
> to GENERIC happen quite often, and we often break older kernel configs from
> older branches (ATA_CAM is no longer in 10 for example).  I'm not sure I buy
> the argument that we can never break kernel configs from older branches.

I was talking about changes that break configs without detection.
ATA_CAM is different.  If the kernel fails to configure or compile,
you fix it and repeat.

The original patch meant your working kernel config built/installed
without the slightest hint that something was wrong until it was a
brick after boot.  That's what I was taking issue with.

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