From f52c4c8e24d1aa5a8f463b0dbc48d4fd1af9ffa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:13:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing 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 It has now been replaced by a C program that uses the crypto library from the OpenSSL package meaning that the OpenSSL devel packages are necessary to provide the devel library link and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/Changes | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index 646cdaa6e9d13..6d88630048582 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ o udev 081 # udevd --version o grub 0.93 # grub --version || grub-install --version o mcelog 0.6 # mcelog --version o iptables 1.4.2 # iptables -V +o openssl & libcrypto 1.0.1k # openssl version Kernel compilation @@ -79,6 +80,17 @@ BC You will need bc to build kernels 3.10 and higher +OpenSSL +------- + +Module signing and external certificate handling use the OpenSSL program and +crypto library to do key creation and signature generation. + +You will need openssl to build kernels 3.7 and higher if module signing is +enabled. You will also need openssl development packages to build kernels 4.3 +and higher. + + System utilities ================ @@ -295,6 +307,10 @@ Binutils -------- o +OpenSSL +------- +o + System utilities **************** @@ -392,4 +408,3 @@ o NFS-Utils --------- o - -- 2.39.5