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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:41:16 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj8oyf23.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121102124834.GQ6627@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org>

Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:49:14PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> My comment was more that this relies on eu-strip, because we always
>> sign modules on installation, so you need eu-strip to *unsign* them
>> (strip won't do it, BTW).
>
> Really?  Which version of binutils are you using?  The strip I have here
> seems to have no qualms about stripping off the signatures:
...
> So that makes me very curious.

Hmm, Works For Me too.  Searches for evidence...

Nope, I'm completely off-base here.  I wrote the exact opposite last
year:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:31:15 +1030 I wrote:
> But objdump doesn't care about appended data.
> objcopy and strip will remove it, of course, but without complaining.

Sorry for the noise,
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-05  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-31 13:56 [PATCH v2] MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target Josh Boyer
2012-11-01  7:33 ` Rusty Russell
2012-11-01 11:25   ` Josh Boyer
2012-11-02  3:19     ` Rusty Russell
2012-11-02 12:48       ` Josh Boyer
2012-11-05  2:11         ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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