[Libosinfo] [v3 2/5] API to query signed status of device drivers

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Sat Feb 16 03:29:18 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:54:08AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>
>> Some OS vendors recommend or require device drivers to be signed by them
>> before these device drivers could be installed on their OS.
>
> A bit inaccurate since we have a workaround to install unsigned drivers.
> Not sure how to say it better though.

Well from the app's POV the script in question is not requiring signed
drivers. Perhaps we can have another value in SigningReq enum that
would give this info to App (if it cares):
OSINFO_DEVICE_DRIVER_SIGNING_REQ_RECOMMENDED ?

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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