Re: [PATCH] keys: allow request-key path to be configured via Kconfig

On Wed Jun 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM BST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 11:30:06AM +0100, Gary Guo wrote:
>> 
>> This is really just for distros to be able to configure where /sbin is located.
>> Given usr merge and (some distros) bin/sbin merge, the canonical path of
>> request-key binary is very likely not /sbin/request-key anymore, so it seems to
>> make sense to me to allow this to be changed rather than always go through
>> compatibility symlinks.
>
> I doubt there's a huge demand other than NixOS. Just basing this on that
> no other noise have been made so far.

Just to add on this, both Fedora and openSUSE for example changes their
CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH to be /usr/sbin/modprobe after /usr merge. They still have
the /sbin -> /usr/sbin symlink available, so it's not like they cannot work with
/sbin/request-key, but I would think that if the option is available then they
might switch to use /usr/sbin/request-key, too.

After all, why would one perform a symlink walk for no reason?

Best,
Gary