Re: [PATCH v2] MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sun Nov 04 2012 - 22:24:27 EST


Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:49:14PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> My comment was more that this relies on eu-strip, because we always
>> sign modules on installation, so you need eu-strip to *unsign* them
>> (strip won't do it, BTW).
>
> Really? Which version of binutils are you using? The strip I have here
> seems to have no qualms about stripping off the signatures:
...
> So that makes me very curious.

Hmm, Works For Me too. Searches for evidence...

Nope, I'm completely off-base here. I wrote the exact opposite last
year:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:31:15 +1030 I wrote:
> But objdump doesn't care about appended data.
> objcopy and strip will remove it, of course, but without complaining.

Sorry for the noise,
Rusty.
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