From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179BFC77B7A for ; Wed, 31 May 2023 15:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234656AbjEaPbf (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2023 11:31:35 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:55364 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231209AbjEaPbb (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2023 11:31:31 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x62b.google.com (mail-pl1-x62b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::62b]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55B4310E for ; Wed, 31 May 2023 08:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x62b.google.com with SMTP id d9443c01a7336-1b18474cbb6so2866515ad.1 for ; Wed, 31 May 2023 08:31:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1685547090; x=1688139090; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:content-language :references:cc:to:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=gqlM3HicN8bZI8y/HXeLeK/HBncomDasUqIVXEA5Vzw=; b=k5e9OshTFnP9OEHnNOE5n9RB8t1s+zscxlxRJpU/MtmoolYIDh1NROZRM71KSbCm/H 5YlAGxk40/pkYJSGp3dE5Y9vNnqKze/uVxokBgV7mDh3QeAuLvlw/LeKddNzxvB4F/gK jdb8S8vv7TEfP1pPQcnVmEv7ZiSmmLeOWpulqA8uwz/lB6HvnDSBAg67D6x5c9qWu8qd wWCnJmrC5FKB1J0M73GPF980rHJf1YAwyFcfdvaLoyy0K6Ou/N2yt3hR0pXIjIjcDdGb jsBGyFHTWU3TMXB8NrJBo+aK894bs4YwhyZ2D1UwjZCyL7bVW++ZObfOCOXjI9Sc3eyx Beyg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1685547090; x=1688139090; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:content-language :references:cc:to:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=gqlM3HicN8bZI8y/HXeLeK/HBncomDasUqIVXEA5Vzw=; b=SDfHFApA513sW8FFH0bOp1czR+Z0SPEngetPTj8LUP6ueEZxqu/VZyc1QcVTUog7vV m6uPPsSJ7zFLSHTo/iqkkkuY1uwbIOs4FIXuwzjH/65NvYpBblBxqab0+FPqobrdG0Ua SBxHfyA7gNb3GLMjl8g5VbEy/l5iwfpBSbNaOKdOaSVcEnJH/ZqoBjJ03ZtP3KfTcX3A B0lGCFuNNN12U8+zBKlgCI/z/0UXJSMkqwdkie4bOEjqDHFqre7cYT4xfXk3ABf51urA 7gwtYqXz952fJQLAy7AKjo+28MINM6poYqRzdiS48N3ootkIyTEVZslCVoyqvmt8n3Vd NL4g== X-Gm-Message-State: AC+VfDyPSeN3kHGVQgp7u0dS9a//3KBqOQszIHBU4GghijvWbu3DNBsT IiLU9UZQJJxqZy1qs2QRH7s= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACHHUZ5kpn+rSpBaqf2DdtPSDT+Ob8m/0QzW03XU/Cr5OxnxFdbau+d4qf+4GBDimRUK26eC60iF1g== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:a508:b0:1ae:8a22:d0dd with SMTP id s8-20020a170902a50800b001ae8a22d0ddmr3831219plq.58.1685547089676; Wed, 31 May 2023 08:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.105] ([49.207.240.61]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jk15-20020a170903330f00b001b024ee5f6esm1543653plb.81.2023.05.31.08.31.27 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 31 May 2023 08:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 21:01:24 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.2 Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] refactor file signing program To: Greg KH Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sshedi@vmware.com References: <20230321193341.87997-1-sshedi@vmware.com> <0ae37bcc-4398-644b-a295-1245d73e5450@gmail.com> <2023053135-bubbling-commodore-3a7b@gregkh> Content-Language: en-US From: Shreenidhi Shedi In-Reply-To: <2023053135-bubbling-commodore-3a7b@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 31-May-2023 20:08, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 04:14:49PM +0530, Shreenidhi Shedi wrote: >> On Wed, 22-Mar-2023 01:03, Shreenidhi Shedi wrote: >> Can you please review the latest patch series? I think I have addressed your >> concerns. Thanks. > > The big question is, "who is going to use these new features"? This > tool is only used by the in-kernel build scripts, and if they do not > take advantage of these new options you have added, why are they needed? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Hi Greg, Thanks for the response. We use it in VMware Photon OS. Following is the link for the same. https://github.com/vmware/photon/blob/master/SPECS/linux/spec_install_post.inc#L4 If this change goes in, it will give a slight push to our build performance. Can you please take these changes? -- Shedi