Subject: enabling cgd by default
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/07/2007 12:26:44
None of our GENERIC* or INSTALL* kernels include support for cgd (the
encrypted disk driver).  What is the reason for this (e.g. legal
concerns, kernel size concerns, software quality concerns, nobody has
got around to enabling it yet)?  I have been using cgd for several years
with no problems, and the absence of cgd is the biggest reason why I am
unable to use a GENERIC_LAPTOP kernel.

I would like to add "pseudo-device cgd 4" to all those GENERIC-like
and INSTALL-like kernel configurations that don't have tight size
constraints.  I propose to use the presence of "pseudo-device raid" as
an indicator for the absence of tight size constraints.

--apb (Alan Barrett)