Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755107AbXFYNDO (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:03:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752755AbXFYNC7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:02:59 -0400 Received: from web36601.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.18]:29985 "HELO web36601.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752385AbXFYNC6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:02:58 -0400 X-YMail-OSG: 0xelIm8VM1mylhBGzsnXueAdCAzx.hMh8ykNb4fNVUrzfkNMJBqxHjEIgOAuEtx_uFAxk6Awhw-- X-RocketYMMF: rancidfat Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:02:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Casey Schaufler Reply-To: casey@schaufler-ca.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface To: Chris Wright , Casey Schaufler Cc: Chris Wright , James Morris , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" , Andrew Morgan , Andrew Morton , Stephen Smalley , lkml , Arjan van de Ven , Greg KH , Eric Paris In-Reply-To: <20070625035733.GF3723@sequoia.sous-sol.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <255513.8833.qm@web36601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1271 Lines: 35 --- Chris Wright wrote: > * Casey Schaufler (casey@schaufler-ca.com) wrote: > > Just hoping to avoid a change collision. If I have to deal > > with this today it's easy, if it doesn't show up anywhere > > until 2.6.28 I'm breezing, but if it all hits in two weeks I > > have some scrambling and yet another delay to deal with. Not > > your problem, a little information would be helpful though. > > Assuming no issues, 2.6.23 (which is months away, although > merge window isn't). Thank you. > > BTW, I reviewed my notes from the early days of LSM and it > > turns out that I agree with the notion that loadable modules > > don't make a whole lot of sense. So long as I can choose > > security models as easily as I can change file systems, I'm > > reasonably happy. That, and that the "default" "regular" > > policy isn't too terribly different from the traditional > > Unix policy. > > The default will continue to be capabilities. Good. Thank you again. Casey Schaufler casey@schaufler-ca.com - 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/