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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@intel.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mark.gross@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:29:09 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hajd4t0y.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51659024.4010405@intel.com>

David Cohen <david.a.cohen@intel.com> writes:
> On 04/10/2013 03:32 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> David Cohen <david.a.cohen@intel.com> writes:
>>> openssl may send garbage to stderr when generating X.509 key pair for
>>> modules signature regardless there was an error or not. It makes more
>>> difficult to create scripts based on kernel error/warning messages.
>>>
>>> When compiling kernel with -jN (N > 1), all warning/error messages
>>> printed while openssl is generating key pair may get mixed dots and
>>> other symbols openssl sends to stderr. This patch makes sure openssl
>>> logs go to default stdout.
>> Ah!  Not garbage, but it writes progress dots and status messages to
>> stderr?
>>
>> I trimmed your commit message as shown below.
>
> Thanks! The new commit message looks fine.
> But it's not the dots. It prints the whole logs to stderr, but the dots 
> are more likely to get mixed.
>
> Br, David

Seems like Linus didn't bite, so I've put it in my modules-next tree.

Thanks,
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-04-11  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-09 21:39 [PATCH v2] MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature David Cohen
2013-04-09 21:43 ` Gross, Mark
2013-04-10  7:29   ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-10 16:23     ` Gross, Mark
2013-04-10 10:32 ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-10 12:20   ` David Howells
2013-04-10 16:15   ` David Cohen
2013-04-11  3:59     ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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