Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Thu Feb 15 2007 - 00:36:28 EST


On Wednesday 14 February 2007 20:13, Dave Jones wrote:
> I've not investigated it, but I hear rumours that suse has something
> similar.

Actually, no. We don't belive that module signing adds significant value, and
it also doesn't work well with external modules. (The external modules we
really care about are GPL ones; it gives us a way to update drivers without
pushing out entirely new kernels.)

Cheers,
Andreas
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