Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262114AbVAYU3w (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:29:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262116AbVAYU3v (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:29:51 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:64699 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262114AbVAYU3g (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:29:36 -0500 Message-ID: <41F6AC38.2060307@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:29:44 -0500 From: John Richard Moser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041211) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J. Bruce Fields" CC: dtor_core@ameritech.net, Linus Torvalds , Bill Davidsen , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Alan Cox , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues References: <1106157152.6310.171.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200501191947.j0JJlf3j024206@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <41F6604B.4090905@tmr.com> <41F6816D.1020306@tmr.com> <41F68975.8010405@comcast.net> <41F691D6.8040803@comcast.net> <41F6A45D.1000804@comcast.net> <20050125202501.GA21764@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: <20050125202501.GA21764@fieldses.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1446 Lines: 45 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:56:13PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > >>In this context, it doesn't make sense to deploy a protection A or B >>without the companion protection, which is what I meant. > > > But breaking up the introduction of new code into logical steps is still > helpful for people trying to understand the new code. > > Even if it's true that it's no use locking any door until they are all > locked, there's still some value to allowing people to watch you lock > each door individually. It's easier for them to understand what you're > doing that way. > I guess so. This still doesn't give me any way to take a big patch and make little patches without hours of work and (N+2) kernel trees for N patches > --Bruce Fields > - -- All content of all messages exchanged herein are left in the Public Domain, unless otherwise explicitly stated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB9qw3hDd4aOud5P8RAq+AAJ4ynZrASPcnh87ziZ1ZWrmzF9V44gCdHQXh yZQ7Z9J7gJ4GWr3zaXM6Qx8= =/4Ze -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/