Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751949AbXJWJNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:13:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753003AbXJWJNi (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:13:38 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:54806 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752995AbXJWJNh (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:13:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:13:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: James Morris cc: Linus Torvalds , Andreas Gruenbacher , Thomas Fricaccia , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: LSM conversion to static interface In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <167451.96128.qm@web38607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200710192226.53233.agruen@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: 902 Lines: 19 On Oct 21 2007 08:57, James Morris wrote: >> >I'd like to note that I asked people who were actually affected, and had >> >examples of their real-world use to step forward and explain their use, >> >and that I explicitly mentioned that this is something we can easily >> >re-visit. [...] I looked at commit 20510f2f4e2dabb0ff6c13901807627ec9452f98 [havenot done much kernel activity recently] where you transform the security interface, and what I see is that all the static inline functions are replaced by an extern one, with the same content. That actually seems to include more performance hit than the (un)registering fluff. Why is that, actually? - 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/