linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: stop demanding lots of new stuff

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Message-ID: <1516310411.410.57.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:20:11 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: stop demanding lots of new stuff

On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 13:07 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Perhaps you did not try on a system without SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
> already enabled - that "select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION" seems to be
> taking effect even when CFG80211_REQUIRE_SIGNED_REGDB is not enabled,
> and pulls in a boatload.

I kinda know actually.

> In fact, I cannot even build the resulting config, without scurrying
> around to update userspace with stuff I never needed before:
> 
>   HOSTCC  scripts/extract-cert
> scripts/extract-cert.c:21:25: fatal error: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory

Fun.

I think the only thing we can do is make REGDB_AS_FW a (new) Kconfig
option that you can then turn off.

johannes