Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262508AbVAZXtw (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:49:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262455AbVAZXs0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:48:26 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:51921 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262134AbVAZT33 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:29:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:28:44 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Olaf Hering 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 In-Reply-To: <20050126191501.GA26920@suse.de> Message-ID: 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=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 688 Lines: 21 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. > Now we have a few nice big patches to carry around because every driver > author had its own proc implementation. Well done... Details, please? Linus - 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/