Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752623AbXJ1Oj6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:39:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751414AbXJ1Ojs (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:39:48 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:60727 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848AbXJ1Ojr (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:39:47 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <47249E8C.4070001@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:37:00 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070807 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tilman Schmidt CC: Adrian Bunk , Greg KH , 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: eradicating out of tree modules References: <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> <20071026232653.GF30533@stusta.de> <47234F73.3040809@imap.cc> <20071028005555.GC23339@stusta.de> <4724557C.6000408@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <47247A1C.8010406@imap.cc> In-Reply-To: <47247A1C.8010406@imap.cc> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 20 Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 28.10.2007 10:25 schrieb Stefan Richter: >> You two are hypothesizing. > > No, we're not. We're discussing the very real issue of whether > LSM should be amputated in such a way as to make life difficult > for out of tree security module developers. I still believe you are. From what I understood, the API change had technical reasons. (What I have read is that using security modules in the form of loadable and unloadable kernel modules didn't make sense.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =-=- ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/