svn commit: r273958 - head/sys/dev/random

[Mark R V Murray]

> On 2 Nov 2014, at 09:59, Andrey Chernov <ache at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 02.11.2014 12:45, Mark R V Murray wrote:
>> Hi DES,
>> 
>> I’m scared witless of this being on-by-default, for the reason given in the removed comment. I’d much prefer to see it only turned on if a kernel option is set, and the embedded folks /et al/ can use that.
> 
> We don't need yet one kernel knob to make sysadmin life a bit more
> harder. This thing needs to be autosensed somehow. F.e. if no disk
> interrupts or ethernet interrupt hooks are executed, switch to AUTOSEED
> automatically (or by any other automatic way).

DES’s change makes no difference in a Tier-1 platform, except potentially hiding a security problem.

In the embedded world Tier-2+ (MIPS/ARM) where the problem is raising its head, customised kernels are very common indeed, and this option gives further control to the engineer configuring the system.

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Mark R V Murray