Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757635AbXJZP7u (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:59:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751784AbXJZP7k (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:59:40 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56983 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751498AbXJZP7j (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:59:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:58:33 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: Adrian Bunk , Simon Arlott , Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Gruenbacher , Thomas Fricaccia , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , James Morris , Crispin Cowan , Giacomo Catenazzi , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface) Message-ID: <20071026155833.GF23016@kroah.com> References: <20071023051642.GA3908@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <471E9260.6000704@goop.org> <20071023220649.5a76af82@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <55615.simon.1193226629@5ec7c279.invalid> <20071024125533.GE30533@stusta.de> <471F8AC5.9080300@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20071024223124.GI30533@stusta.de> <4721221A.1020309@imap.cc> <20071026025647.GC21408@kroah.com> <4721B77F.8070102@imap.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4721B77F.8070102@imap.cc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1289 Lines: 28 On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:56:47 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a list of all known external modules and drivers > > and work to get them included in the main kernel tree to help prevent > > these kinds of things. If you know of any that are not on the list at: > > http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OutOfTreeDrivers > > please feel free to add them, or email me with the needed information > > and I will add them to the list. > > That's certainly helpful, but I still think there will always be > a number of external modules that cannot be merged right now or at > all, and deliberately making life difficult for out-of-tree code > maintainers in order to coerce them into submitting their code for > inclusion in the kernel will not work, it'll only create bad > feelings. Do you have examples of proof of this? Read Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt for how we already make out-of-tree code developer's lives hell :) thanks, greg k-h - 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/