Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:48:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:48:45 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust128.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.128]:34296 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:48:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] In-kernel module loader 1/7 From: Alan Cox To: Greg KH Cc: Roman Zippel , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020919183843.GA16568@kroah.com> References: <20020919125906.21DEA2C22A@lists.samba.org> <20020919183843.GA16568@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 19 Sep 2002 19:58:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1032461895.27865.54.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 13 On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 19:38, Greg KH wrote: > And with a LSM module, how can it answer that? There's no way, unless > we count every time someone calls into our module. And if you do that, > no one will even want to use your module, given the number of hooks, and > the paths those hooks are on (the speed hit would be horrible.) So the LSM module always says no. Don't make other modules suffer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/