From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:14:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130306221410.7910.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+ZvHYE0TPv5rt5tfb_6YJe=aNnkMr5onFQVvfCL04Tx7t=fbg@mail.gmail.com>
Carlos Silva wrote:
> > > If one wants to create a key himself, it's also possible to use this
> > > key, he just has to name it signing_key.priv and siging_key.x509 and
> > > put it under /usr/src/linux.
> >
> > Do you know if this is a sane default?
> >
> > Where do most users of signed modules store keys so far?
>
> It's where the kernel build system picks them.
Are you sure? I find that hard to believe? Even if I tell an external
module to build against a source tree in ~/linux/ the Makefiles will
go to look for the keys in /usr/src/linux/ ?
> They only have to be there to build the kernel, nothing else.
I'm not talking about end users, by users I mean those who use the
key files to build kernels and modules.
//Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-06 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 19:25 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing Carlos Silva
2013-03-06 19:32 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2013-03-06 19:54 ` Carlos Silva
2013-03-06 21:39 ` Peter Stuge
2013-03-06 22:07 ` Carlos Silva
2013-03-06 22:14 ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2013-03-06 22:19 ` Carlos Silva
2013-03-08 17:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
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