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

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Wed Feb 6 13:25:55 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 05:05:28PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> The problem is that having it configurable would mean that we can't
>> have a static info on the script about the signature requirement (see
>> "installer: API to query signed device driver requirement" patch).
>
> Why is it not possible? The query API would return
> REQ_STRICT/REQ_WARN/REQ_NONE as it currently does.
> If you get REQ_STRICT/REQ_WARN,

Actually I got mixed up in these discussions so I wrongly remembered
that we agreed on that API for drivers, not the scripts. Sorry for
that.

> then the user can try to call
> osinfo_install_script_disable_driver_signature_checks() (with a
> better naming, this name is just for the purpose of this discussion) if
> they wants to install drivers fully unattended. This setter can fail
> in case libosinfo does not know how to do it.

Yeah, now that I remember correctly this shouldn't be a problem. I'll
make it configurable then if I must. I still don't think there is any
need for it (at least yet).

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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