Re: odd habits with binary blobs.....

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Wed 2008-12-03 22:40:51, devzero@web.de wrote:
> hello, 
> 
> i gave r1soft`s new/free "hot copy" a try today and .... failed:
> 
> vserver2:/tmp/usr/sbin # ./hcp-setup
> Gathering kernel information
> Gathering kernel information complete.
> Error: A network error occurred connecting to 'kmod32.r1soft.com'
> 
> what a pain....trying to setup a linux kernel module, the installer wants to phone home - and fails.
> 
> but it`s even worse - http://wiki.r1soft.com/display/LTR1D/hcp-setup tells:
> 
> BUILDING HOT COPY DRIVER FROM SOURCE
> 
> hcp-setup will tar up your kernel source tree or headers and upload them to an R1Soft build server over HTTPS using XML-RPC. Once your system's kernel headers or source have been uploaded the R1Soft build server will compile a Hot Copy device driver as a kernel module and hcp-setup will automatically download it to your system.
> 
> In order for hcp-setup to work your Linux server must have HTTPS Internet access to kmod32.r1soft.com (32-bit systems) and kmod64.r1soft.com (64-bit systems)
> 
> 
> how weird is THAT?
> 
> did anybody ever come across such "build binary blobs remotely" system ?
> 
> 
> ok, disqualified.  won`t touch it again, as i also don`t know what REALLY is transferred to the vendor - but i wonder what kernel devs think about such build system and what in-kernel alternative exists for this. (i think it doesn`t exist - but maybe somebody working on that ?)
> 

Hmm. Gcc was not really designed to prevent .c source from exploiting
it.

So I guess you could have some phun :-).

									Pavel
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