Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MR4108: Improve DMI tables under Linux.

[eric pouech (＠epo)]

On Tue Oct 17 13:41:31 2023 +0000, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> > concerning the migration phase:
> > - do you have an idea of which applications make use of it? (asking in
>
> case you have some idea, but likely we cannot be sure of all of it)
> I remember working on a game but I forgot the name. Generally it's DRM
> schemes that try to bind an account or install to a particular machine.
> > - a countermeasure could be to set a flag in the Wine prefix
>
> (dont_hash_machineid, at value 0 when not defined) to control the
> activation of the hashing ; every new prefix would be created with the
> flag set to 1 ; that would limit the impact, but not eradicate it (if
> user reinstalls his/her app in newly created prefix) ; that could
> eventually controlled in winecfg with more context on the pros&cons
> I don't think we'd want such code in Wine.

neither do I ;-)