Module Name: src
Committed By: riastradh
Date: Tue Mar 26 10:56:34 UTC 2024
Modified Files:
src/sys/conf: std
Log Message:
conf/std: Update comment over rnd(4) to reflect current reality.
PR kern/46728
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.23 -r1.24 src/sys/conf/std
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Modified files:
Index: src/sys/conf/std
diff -u src/sys/conf/std:1.23 src/sys/conf/std:1.24
--- src/sys/conf/std:1.23 Sun Jan 27 02:08:41 2019
+++ src/sys/conf/std Tue Mar 26 10:56:34 2024
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: std,v 1.23 2019/01/27 02:08:41 pgoyette Exp $
+# $NetBSD: std,v 1.24 2024/03/26 10:56:34 riastradh Exp $
#
# standard MI 'options'
#
@@ -51,9 +51,13 @@ options SCHED_4BSD
pseudo-device cpuctl
#
-# Kernel entropy pool and random-number generator pseudodevice.
-# The pseudodevice might stop being "std" when the two are torn
-# apart some day but the entropy pool itself never will (they are
-# presently implemented in the same source file)
+# /dev/random and /dev/urandom interfaces.
+#
+# This could be taken out of conf/std now that the entropy pool and
+# kernel random number generation API is part of kern proper --
+# provided that some care is taken in ensuring that we copy & paste
+# this line in essentially every kernel config, because many
+# applications, even embedded ones, will likely rely in some way or
+# other on reading from /dev/urandom.
#
pseudo-device rnd
