On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:34:12 +0100 > David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Why do this in the kernel.That appears to be completely insane. > > > > A number of reasons: > > > > (1) The UEFI signature/key database may contain ASN.1 X.509 certificates and > > we may need to use those very early in the boot process, during initrd. > > Ok that makes some sense. I'd like to see some serious effort at code review and testing before this code is merged. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html