Re: [PATCH v2] MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature

[Rusty Russell]

David Cohen <david.a.cohen@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 04/10/2013 03:32 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> David Cohen <david.a.cohen@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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