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SubjectRe: 'make O=' indigestion with module signing

* David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> > So the root cause was: 'make mrproper doesn't clean certs/' out enough,
> > and this chunk of certs/Makefile
> > ...
> > I admit not being sure how (or if) this should be fixed
>
> It's tricky because CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY may not point to a file, let alone a
> file that was autogenerated - it can be given a PKCS#11 URI, for instance. I
> had to put in the autogeneration based on a magic config string value to stop
> randconfig blowing up - but it only does the autogeneration if you don't put
> in your own file there before building.
>
> Possibly I can add something like:
>
> clean-files := signing_key.pem x509.genkey
>
> inside the
>
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY),"certs/signing_key.pem")
> ...
> endif
>
> section.

Note that this bug is now upstream in Linus's tree and has broken
the deb-pkg distro kernel build method.

Would be nice to make 'make mrproper' work again.

Thanks,

Ingo

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