Subject: Re: kernel ip_randomid() and libc randomid(3) still "broken"
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/06/2003 16:23:18
In message <F8F6B49B-2058-11D8-9362-000A957020BC@3am-software.com>,
Matt Thomas writes:
>#ifdef's are not bad. It allows users to trim unneeded code from their
>kernels. This is very important in embedded systems.
>
>Put the ifdef's back, please.
Itojun, are you going to put the #ifdefs back?
If you really want this bogus (mis)feature so badly, then you can
easily add the option to GENERIC kernels *after* the random-id code
is not longer broken.