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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5 Ready list - Kernel Hooks
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:49:22PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> 
> The downside of course is that one solution may not suit all,
> and in some cases (where the above aspects are not critical) 
> people might prefer as a matter of taste to have explicit subsystem 
> specific calls that clearly indicate the kind of component using the 
> hooks. (Am wondering if this is one of the reasons why LSM  
> would prefer not to link up with kernel hooks. Is that it ?)

Yes, that is one of the main reasons LSM doesn't want to use such a
mechanism.  A simple, explicit, function call is fine for what we need
to do.

thanks,

greg k-h
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