Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753373AbXJHU7D (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:59:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752314AbXJHU6x (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:58:53 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:36639 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751732AbXJHU6w (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:58:52 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: casey@schaufler-ca.com Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Kyle Moffett , Linus Torvalds , Bill Davidsen , Stephen Smalley , James Morris , Andrew Morton , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel References: <868078.46629.qm@web36612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:57:27 -0600 In-Reply-To: <868078.46629.qm@web36612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Casey Schaufler's message of "Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:25:58 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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: 1096 Lines: 27 Casey Schaufler writes: > --- "Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > >> It really seems to me that the LSM as currently structured creates >> a large barrier to entry for people who have just this little thing >> they want to do that is not possible with any existing security >> module. > > I honestly think that the barrier has been more political > in nature than technical. I don't know how long you've been > watching, but no attempt to get an LSM upstream has escaped > exagerated cricism from certain factions. Only someone who wants > to get cut to metaphorical ribbons would submit a little LSM. > Maybe that will get better now. I sure hope so. Yes. Me to. I certainly agree about the political part. My only hope was to suggest something that my reduce what there is to get political about. Eric - 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/