[Libosinfo] [PATCH 2/8] winxp, installer: Ignore unsigned drivers

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Feb 7 00:16:52 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> Why not let apps decide that? We are giving them info on the signed
>> status of drivers and they can make an informed decision.
>
> This is exactly my point, applications cannot say "I'm only using signed
> drivers, don't disable signature checking" with the current series as far
> as I understand it.

If applications are only going to use signed drivers, they don't need
to disable anything. So really there is no app that is going to need
this API but to get this very important work in, I'll live with a bit
of redundant API.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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