Re: [PATCH] keys: allow request-key path to be configured via Kconfig

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 02:37:41PM +0100, Gary Guo wrote:
> On Wed Jun 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM BST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 11:30:06AM +0100, Gary Guo wrote:
> >> 
> >> This is really just for distros to be able to configure where /sbin is located.
> >> Given usr merge and (some distros) bin/sbin merge, the canonical path of
> >> request-key binary is very likely not /sbin/request-key anymore, so it seems to
> >> make sense to me to allow this to be changed rather than always go through
> >> compatibility symlinks.
> >
> > I doubt there's a huge demand other than NixOS. Just basing this on that
> > no other noise have been made so far.
> 
> Just to add on this, both Fedora and openSUSE for example changes their
> CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH to be /usr/sbin/modprobe after /usr merge. They still have
> the /sbin -> /usr/sbin symlink available, so it's not like they cannot work with
> /sbin/request-key, but I would think that if the option is available then they
> might switch to use /usr/sbin/request-key, too.
> 
> After all, why would one perform a symlink walk for no reason?
> 
> Best,
> Gary

It's not who is right or who is wrong. "The representation
of the argument" is not working here.

Back to the drawing board...

BR, Jarkko