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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2015-07-20 23:16:28 +0300
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2015-08-07 18:26:14 +0300
commitaf1eb2913275c3ab1598b0c24c893499092df08a (patch)
treee176ad5867a4d4ca3db433e62fb362e5fff00be8 /Documentation/kbuild
parentcaf6fe91ddf62a96401e21e9b7a07227440f4185 (diff)
downloadlinux-af1eb2913275c3ab1598b0c24c893499092df08a.tar.xz
modsign: Allow password to be specified for signing key
We don't want this in the Kconfig since it might then get exposed in /proc/config.gz. So make it a parameter to Kbuild instead. This also means we don't have to jump through hoops to strip quotes from it, as we would if it was a config option. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index 6466704d47b5..0ff6a466a05b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -174,6 +174,11 @@ The output directory is often set using "O=..." on the commandline.
The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.
+KBUILD_SIGN_PIN
+--------------------------------------------------
+This variable allows a passphrase or PIN to be passed to the sign-file
+utility when signing kernel modules, if the private key requires such.
+
KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN
--------------------------------------------------
KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid errors in case of undefined