Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262210AbVAZXxQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:53:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262105AbVAZXud (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:50:33 -0500 Received: from news.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:9139 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262167AbVAZTin (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:38:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:38:39 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jesse Pollard , linux-os , John Richard Moser , dtor_core@ameritech.net, 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 Message-ID: <20050126193839.GA29324@suse.de> References: <1106157152.6310.171.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <41F6A45D.1000804@comcast.net> <05012609151500.16556@tabby> <20050126191501.GA26920@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 26 On Wed, Jan 26, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > And, did that nice interface help at all? No, it did not. > > Noone made seqfile mandatory in 2.6. > > Sure it helped. We didn't make it mandatory, but new stuff ends up being > written with it, and old stuff _does_ end up being converted to it. 2.5 was the right time to enforce it. > > Now we have a few nice big patches to carry around because every driver > > author had its own proc implementation. Well done... > > Details, please? You did it this way: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@4115cba3UCrZo9SnkQp0apTO3SghJQ - 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/