From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267587AbUG3EJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:09:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267592AbUG3EJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:09:57 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:12221 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267587AbUG3EJ4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:09:56 -0400 To: Alan Cox Cc: Gerrit Huizenga , Andrew Morton , suparna@in.ibm.com, fastboot@osdl.org, mbligh@aracnet.com, jbarnes@engr.sgi.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API References: <1091143551.1596.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 29 Jul 2004 22:07:35 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1091143551.1596.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: > On Gwe, 2004-07-30 at 01:04, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The beauty of kexec is all of these fun things become user > > problems from the point of the view of the sick kernel so > > it does not need to worry about them. > > > > I will be happy to see a SHA patch for /sbin/kexec. > > crypto/sha1.c provides all the code you need. Yep that is the easy part, finding a sha1 implementation. The interesting part is the logic that hooks in the code and computes and checks the hash. Especially with the area the sha1 code checkes including the sha1 check code :) Eric