linux/Documentation/Changes, branch v4.3

MODSIGN: Change from CMS to PKCS#7 signing if the openssl is too old

2015-09-25T15:31:46Z

The sign-file.c program actually uses CMS rather than PKCS#7 to sign a file since that allows the target X.509 certificate to be specified by subjectKeyId rather than by issuer + serialNumber. However, older versions of the OpenSSL crypto library (such as may be found in CentOS 5.11) don't support CMS. Assume everything prior to OpenSSL-1.0.0 doesn't support CMS and switch to using PKCS#7 in that case. Further, the pre-1.0.0 OpenSSL only supports PKCS#7 signing with SHA1, so give an error from the sign-file script if the caller requests anything other than SHA1. The compiler gives the following error with an OpenSSL crypto library that's too old: HOSTCC scripts/sign-file scripts/sign-file.c:23:25: fatal error: openssl/cms.h: No such file or directory #include Reported-by: Vinson Lee Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: David Woodhouse

Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing

2015-08-27T22:00:30Z

The module signing script (sign-file) used to be a wrapper around the openssl program. It has now been replaced by a C program that uses the crypto library from the OpenSSL package meaning that the OpenSSL devel packages are necessary to provide the devel library link and the header files. This would be openssl-devel on Fedora and libssl-dev on Debian. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: James Morris

Documentation: GNU is frequently spelled Gnu

2014-12-29T22:33:17Z

The official spelling of GNU is GNU and not Gnu. Bug 89551 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89551 Signed-off-by: Kevin Law Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Update old iproute2 and Xen Remus links

2014-12-09T18:38:13Z

Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Documentation: remove obsolete pcmcia-cs from Changes

2014-09-09T08:35:58Z

remove pcmcia-cs from Changes, since it seems to be obsolete since a long time Signed-off-by: Simon Danner Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Documentation: update links in Changes

2014-09-09T08:35:40Z

Update broken links in Changes Signed-off-by: Simon Danner Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Documentation/Changes: clean up mcelog paragraph

2014-07-12T18:30:36Z

The paragraph on mcelog currently describes kernel v2.6.31. In that kernel the mce code (for i386, that is) was in transition. Ever since v2.6.32 the situation is much simpler (eg, mcelog is now needed to process events on almost all x86 machines, i386 and x86-64). Since this "document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels" let's just describe that situation. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle Acked-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

doc: Note need of bc in the kernel build from 3.10 onwards

2014-05-19T14:27:20Z

HPA did the world a favour and reduced the number of perl scripts in the universe. However we do now need bc Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60575 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

remove obsolete references to powertweak

2013-11-28T04:34:32Z

This tool hasn't been maintained in over a decade, and is pretty much useless these days. Let's pretend it never happened. Also remove a long-dead email address. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/Changes: remove some really obsolete text

2011-07-11T23:48:38Z

That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump, and was based even then on older versions. Some of it is just obsolete, and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and should be updated to 3.0. Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific. Reported-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds