Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] firmware: add extensible driver data params

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Jun 19 2017 - 03:34:01 EST


On Sat, 2017-06-17 at 21:38 +0200, Greg KH wrote:

> But we don't accept kernel patches for some mythical future option
> that might be happening some time in the future.ÂÂHeck, I'm still not
> convinced that firmware signing isn't anything more than just some
> snakeoil in the first place!

I for one really want the "firmware" signing, because I want to load
the regulatory database through this API, and

But honestly, I've been waiting for years for that now and started
looking at what it would take to hand-implement that on top of the
existing firmware API. Probably not all that much.

johannes