Killing RANDOM_LOADABLE?
Conrad Meyer
cem at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 2 03:09:34 UTC 2019
On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 6:42 PM Simon J. Gerraty <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
> 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.
If your preload system does not use RANDOM_LOADABLE, then perhaps
there aren't any consumers. That'd be great. I don't intend to
change loader(8) preloading or the kernel linker in relation to this
topic.
> 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.
Thanks for checking, I appreciate it.
Best,
Conrad
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