linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] firmware: add extensible driver data params

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Message-ID: <1497857596.2259.3.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:33:16 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] firmware: add extensible driver data params

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