Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263078AbTEMGFA (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 02:05:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263084AbTEMGFA (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 02:05:00 -0400 Received: from cerebus.wirex.com ([65.102.14.138]:57070 "EHLO figure1.int.wirex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263078AbTEMGE7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 02:04:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 23:16:55 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, linux-security-module@wirex.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Early init for security modules Message-ID: <20030512231655.B21486@figure1.int.wirex.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, linux-security-module@wirex.com References: <20030512200309.C20068@figure1.int.wirex.com> <20030512201518.X19432@figure1.int.wirex.com> <20030513050336.GA10596@Wotan.suse.de> <20030512222000.A21486@figure1.int.wirex.com> <20030513052832.GF10596@Wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030513052832.GF10596@Wotan.suse.de>; from ak@suse.de on Tue, May 13, 2003 at 07:28:33AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1120 Lines: 25 * Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:20:00PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > > > This is too late. Those are just for order in do_initcalls() which is > > well after some kernel threads have been created and filesystems have been > > mounted, etc. This patch allows statically linked modules to catch > > the creation of such kernel objects and give them all consistent labels. > > I would give them a generic name then in case someone else needs that too, > like "early_initcalls" I orginally thought it would be nice to make it generic, but it's location is somewhat specific to the security hooks. It seems there is easily tension between conflicting needs, should be earlier...should be later, so I made it specific. Is there currently a need? thanks, chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - 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/