svn commit: r274739 - head/sys/mips/conf

[Mark R V Murray]

> On 20 Nov 2014, at 08:48, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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…

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…

There is some compulsory infrastructure; this gets you the “dummy”
driver which just blocks and never delivers anything.

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Mark R V Murray