[Libosinfo] [v3 3/5] installer: API to query device driver signing requirement

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Sat Feb 16 03:34:08 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:54:09AM +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. This
>> recommendation/requirement then also applies to the installer scripts of
>> that particular OS.
>
> Do we need to expose this to osinfo users as you added a magic workaround
> for the signing requirement ?

I think we'll need this for win7 if we don't manage to find a similar
magic for it. Lets have the API in place already for that.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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