Code review comment for lp:~fahad-aizaz/hipl/hip-cert-conf

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:40:11AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 08:30:37PM +0100, René Hummen wrote:
> > On 30.01.2012, at 12:41, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:09:32PM +0100, René Hummen wrote:
> > >> On 25.01.2012, at 16:14, Fahad Aizaz wrote:
> > >>> Fahad Aizaz has proposed merging lp:~fahad-aizaz/hipl/hip-cert-conf into lp:hipl.
> > >>>
> > >>> --- hipd/init.c 2011-12-13 13:50:53 +0000
> > >>> +++ hipd/init.c 2012-01-25 15:13:34 +0000
> > >>> @@ -465,81 +435,6 @@
> > >>>
> > >>> -/* Needed if the configuration file for certs did not exist */
> > >>> -#define HIP_CERT_INIT_DAYS 10
> > >>
> > >> ... and once we are on it, we can also use this define instead of
> > >> the parameter in the configuration file. This change would make
> > >> hip_cert.conf obsolete.
> > >
> > > How can build-time configuration make run-time configuration obsolete?
> >
> > The generated configuration file is only used by the test application
> > certteststub. My thought: Is it really necessary to offer run-time
> > configuration support by means of a config file for a test
> > application? I especially ask this question seeing that the current
> > certificate code neither allows signaling of certificates between two
> > instances of the hipd nor verification of certificates by the hipfw.
> > In my opinion, having a config file for this specific test stub is
> > overkill and the removal of the code responsible for reading and
> > parsing the config file would enable us to further shrink the HIPL
> > codebase.
>
> OK, I understand what you mean now and agree in full - let's remove this
> config file and its reading code. Note that there will still be three
> other ways of dealing with config files left afterwards...

Fahad can you tackle this?

Diego