Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752377AbXJWJLH (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:11:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751462AbXJWJK4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:10:56 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:54784 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751276AbXJWJKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:10:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:10:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Chris Wright cc: Arjan van de Ven , James Morris , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Gruenbacher , Thomas Fricaccia , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: LSM conversion to static interface [revert patch] In-Reply-To: <20071023051642.GA3908@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Message-ID: References: <167451.96128.qm@web38607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200710192226.53233.agruen@suse.de> <20071022210956.31f7bbcf@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20071023051642.GA3908@sequoia.sous-sol.org> 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: 913 Lines: 20 On Oct 22 2007 22:16, Chris Wright wrote: >> >> If it turns out that the above module becomes unmaintained and no >> longer usable, and no other useful cases show up, we can always >> garbage collect this code in the future; it's now low-overhead >> anyway for those who care, due to the KConfig option. > >Yes, and I think we can still improve performance although I can't see >anyway to help out the modular case, so I guess it will have to incur >the hit that's always been there. I think your Kconfig option is a >decent compromise. (Un)registering security modules is a one-time hit. You do not load and unload modules on a per-minute basis outside debugging. - 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/