Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266105AbUFPDlT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:41:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266108AbUFPDlT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:41:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:1729 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266105AbUFPDlS (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:41:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:40:41 -0400 (EDT) From: James Morris X-X-Sender: jmorris@thoron.boston.redhat.com To: Jeff Garzik cc: Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , Stephen Smalley , Chris Wright , , Subject: Re: [SELINUX][PATCH 1/4] Fine-grained Netlink support - SELinux headers update In-Reply-To: <40CFBD04.8030601@pobox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1090 Lines: 30 On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > James Morris wrote: > > This patch regenerates the SELinux module headers to reflect new class > > and access vectors definitions. The size of the diff is misleading; > > much of it is simply a change in the ordering of the automatically > > generated definitions. The corresponding generation script has been > > changed to ensure a stable order in the future. Please apply. > > > Why not commit the generation script, and kill the auto-generated files? The script lives in the SELinux policy compilation package, which is considered the source of truth for these headers. They are only ever regenerated manually when significant changes are made to SELinux (like this), and I don't think there is any advantage in doing this in the kernel tree. - James -- James Morris - 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/