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

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:29:18AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> Oh, I was more questioning the API documentation/commit log. If you can
> just improve the wording, that's fine with me. 'RECOMMENDED' could be good
> too, though it raises the question of what happens when going with unsigned
> drivers on REQ_RECOMMENDED systems. Will this work flawlessly, will some
> warnings be shown, ...

Since we have WARN and STRICT separately, RECOMMEND would only mean
that its recommended and OS/script will still accept unsigned drivers.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124