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SubjectRe: [PATCH] modsign: Use single PEM file for autogenerated key
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On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 15:56 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > I am disinclined to put in place any kind of backward-compatibility to
> > find and use the old filenames. And I don't much care about changing the
> > build system 'interface' for the user. I'm *very* keen to break that
> > $(wildcard *.x509) crap anyway, so we might as well do this at the same
> > time.
>
> Should some sort of warning then be emitted if $(wildcard *.x509) *does* turn
> up anything? Just so that people don't get unexpectedly surprised when their
> auxiliary keys are suddenly ignored.

Would people even notice such a warning?

People who are using long-term keys and inserting them into the kernel
build probably ought to be paying attention and know what they're doing.
There are relatively few of them, and I think that as long as the change
is clearly documented, we should probably be fine.

Besides, *anyone* relying on that horrid wildcard crap should have
*expected* it to go away because it was an abomination :)

--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation



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