On Thu May 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM EEST, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:53:04PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > > > Just throwing something because came to mind, not a serious suggestion. > > > > In crypto_larval_lookup I see statements like this: > > > > request_module("crypto-%s", name); > > > > You could potentially bake up a section/table to vmlinux which would > > have entries like: > > > > "module name", 1/0 > > > > '1' would mean built-in. Then for early randomness use only stuff > > that is built-in. > > This early random stuff is obsolete not just because we have a > kernel thread doing the same thing, but moreover random.c itself > has been modified so that it is no longer starved of entropy on > startup. There is no reason to feed any early randomness.
As a feature that would still sometimes nice to have. I've sometimes wished there was "lsmod -b" or similar to display built-in stuff ;-) So overally I think it was good to have at least documented here... BR, Jarkko