From
The Register:
Linus Torvalds has again vented his spleen online, taking on Red Hat employee David Howells with a series of expletive-laden posts on the topic of X.509 public key management standard.
The action takes place on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, with Howell posting a request that Torvalds pull this patchset please.
Howells wants the code accepted into the kernel so Red Hat can embed an X.509 certificate containing the key in a section called '.keylist' in an EFI PE binary and then get the binary signed by Microsoft. This arrangement, he suggests, is more elegant than the way the Linux kernel signs certificates today.
Torvalds' initial response is not without a lot more discussion first, because quite frankly, this is f*cking moronic. The whole thing seems to be designed around stupid interfaces, for completely moronic reasons. Why should we do this?
As the conversation unfolds Torvalds points out that the discussion is not a fellatio contest, suggests that If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that's *your* issue and lambasting Red Hat for even suggesting key management be done in the kernel.
Opinion in the thread seems to favour Torvalds' point of view and discussion has petered out, so it looks like the Lord of Linux has taken this round.