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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] firmware: add extensible driver data params
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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On Sat, 2017-06-17 at 21:38 +0200, Greg KH wrote:

> But we don't accept kernel patches for some mythical future option
> that might be happening some time in the future.  Heck, I'm still not
> convinced that firmware signing isn't anything more than just some
> snakeoil in the first place!

I for one really want the "firmware" signing, because I want to load
the regulatory database through this API, and 

But honestly, I've been waiting for years for that now and started
looking at what it would take to hand-implement that on top of the
existing firmware API. Probably not all that much.

johannes