Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:27:03 -0700 | Subject | Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time |
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > > You cut too much: you need genkeyid.
Yeah, I sent out a fixed version later, but I much prefer your version that generates those files earlier, not a "make modules_install".
[ Btw, your email "Date:" field is from 2+ hours ago, but it hit ozlabs and then arrived here only minutes ago. There's some delay in your mail delivery. Maybe it's something you know about, and you're batching emails over carrier pigeons, but I thought I'd mention it in case you weren't aware of some odd SMTP delay ]
> And in a moment of optimism I tried 'make modules_install MODLIB=.' to > sign modules in-place. It deleted my kernel/ dir. Don't recommend.
Heh. I assume that's an old "feature", not something that has anything to do with the whole signing thing.
Linus
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