Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751921AbWCAVVG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:21:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751922AbWCAVVG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:21:06 -0500 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:1193 "EHLO mail.utsl.gen.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751921AbWCAVVF (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:21:05 -0500 Message-ID: <44061035.20604@vilain.net> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:20:53 +1300 From: Sam Vilain User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Herbert Poetzl , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC] vfs: cleanup of permission() References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1322 Lines: 25 tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com wrote: >>As external module, you have little say so far simply because your usage >>isn't visible. I'd urge you to quickly submit your code so that the >>things you need from this are better visible to the people who are >>thinking and working on the redesign. > I know all that, but it is a complicated matter to discuss. That's why I > was planning to make a comprehensive announcement which would discuss most > of the hot topics. Ideally yes, I would like to merge, but it won't happen > now. The first thing I would like to do is establish common ground with > other security vendors so that we could approach the problem together. > Personaly, I am not sure whether insisting that everything should be a > part of kernel is a right thing to do even though I think I understand all > the up- and down-sides of both policies. > > Having said all this above, I am afraid that there will be no other choice > but to start working on the announcement asap. :) Perhaps you can put up the work in progress on a git repository somewhere? Sam. - 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/