Killing RANDOM_LOADABLE?

[Simon J. Gerraty]

Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I appreciate the quick feedback, thanks.  The algorithm/ internals aren’t
> too important for me; I’m interested in what your minimal api needs from
> FreeBSD are.
> 
> It sounds like you select the random module to load in loader(8) — you
> don’t need userspace / runtime loading (kldload). Is that understanding
> correct?

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.


> Would it be possible to answer the other questions from the initial email,
> too? If random loadable support was removed upstream, are you unable to

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.