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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:50:43 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Shreenidhi Shedi <yesshedi@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/7] sign-file: add support to sign modules in bulk
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 10:52:07PM +0530, Shreenidhi Shedi wrote:
> In the existing system, we need to invoke sign-file binary for every
> module we want to sign. This patch adds support to give modules list
> in bulk and it will sign them all one by one.

But you never actually use this option in the kernel build process?  If
not, why add this at all?

thanks,

greg k-h