Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753570Ab2JRD10 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:27:26 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:34813 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750906Ab2JRD1Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:27:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87txtso9xw.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> References: <87txtso9xw.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:27:03 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: C_T3uqfOgc6IZKcUwUB4T4PZk7g Message-ID: Subject: Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time To: Rusty Russell Cc: David Miller , David Howells , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1095 Lines: 25 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Rusty Russell 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/