On Jan 6, 2011, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > We compute the hash of "`uname -r`/foobar/blobname.fw", and ask the > userland hotplug script for %x of that hash number.
> This does not depend on any session ID. It will only change if you > install a different version of Linux. Yeah, this particular variant doesn't. Other variants, using a kernel-supplied varying hash prefix (which could be exposed through some file named hashprefix within /sys) could. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer
