Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> writes: > Hi Rusty, > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:53:15 +1030 Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> > wrote: >> >> Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> writes: >> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hacking the keyid and signer-name to be extracted every time by >> >> sign-file takes my modules_install time from 18.6 seconds to 19.1. We'd >> >> get that back easily by making sign-file a perl script anyway; it calls >> >> out to perl 3 times already. >> > >> > Ok, that tiny slowdown seems worth the cleanup, especially if we'd get >> > it back from somebody re-writing it in perl. >> > >> > Want to sign off on the two patches, or put them in your git tree? >> >> Smerged them together: no point moving the x509keyid script now. >> I dropped the optional dst arg, since we don't use it. > > So, this still generates the keys during the normal build, right? That > would be a problem for build servers that have limited randomness > available to them, I think.
Yes. You can either continue to disable module signatures, or copy some pre-made keys in the toplevel: signing_key.priv and signing_key.x509. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/