Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:07:36 -0700 | Subject | Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time |
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote: > > The downside is that it won't work for distros. Or at least the distros > using RPM's debuginfo subpackage mechanism.
Hmm. It *should* work for them too, because the debuginfo modules stay around in the object tree, and never get stripped there. None of this is different from what we used to do before: we stripped the modules as we copied them to /lib/modules (where the RPM build obviously would have that $RPM_BUILD_ROOT prefix on the module install path).
Anyway, I seriously think that the kernel build should worry about *users*, not about the distro building their binaries. And I do think the current mess is unacceptable (following the insane "stripped->extra stripping->signed->potentially stripped *again* at install time" code was just insane). I may not have reacted as much as David to the actual build having slowed down, but having looked at the makefiles, there really is no excuse for that mess.
Linus
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