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Re: slot attributes & last call

Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com> Thu, 18 December 2014 01:10 UTC

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On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Nico Williams wrote:

>> > >I think so.  This is really for Jan to answer.  Maybe the Solaris
>> > >libpkcs11 should just ensure a meaningful (stable and distinct) slot
>> > >label.  If that could be done then slot-id could be excluded here.
>> > >
>> > >Jan?
>> >
>> >         for example, metaslot on Solaris is always 0 so slot-id=0
>> > would be reliable there to use to access the soft token.  Jan.
>> 
>> And there is no other URI that could identify that slot without the slot-id
>> attribute? i.e. pkcs11:slot-description=metaslot
>
>I would think so.  Maybe Jan misunderstood my question; he certainly
>didn't answer it.

	I did, I'm sorry.  The description is distinct, "Sun Metaslot" 
and it's defacto stable but what I wanted to say was that I don't 
think it is about whether we find a way not to use the attribute since 
we could probably do without other attributes as well, I still think 
that if we add slot-description and slot-manufacturer, we should add 
slot-id since there are situations where it may be useful.

	I will draft new text including the slot-id attribute first 
and send it here but will not file it yet.

	thank you for reviewing this last minute proposals.  J.

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Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com>

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