Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755446AbXJ1Qz3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:55:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751570AbXJ1QzV (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:55:21 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:54930 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbXJ1QzU (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:55:20 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: VbOACP+9OHfw472qyVsFKjhc7z4g8tXPTiLfrETpT84O 1193590518 Message-ID: <4724BF06.30404@imap.cc> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:55:34 +0100 From: Tilman Schmidt Organization: me - organized?? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Richter 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> <47249E8C.4070001@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <47249E8C.4070001@s5r6.in-berlin.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigDE974E33589F1A682D018F77" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1949 Lines: 50 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigDE974E33589F1A682D018F77 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 28.10.2007 15:37 schrieb Stefan Richter: > 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. >=20 > 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.) The jury is still out on that, and it's not my area of expertise anyway. But Adrian declared that making life more difficult for out-of-tree module developers would in itself be a legitimate reason for such a change, and that's what I'm disputing. --=20 Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Unge=F6ffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe R=FCckseite) --------------enigDE974E33589F1A682D018F77 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3rc1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHJL8OMdB4Whm86/kRAtTUAJ90ZarI7wlJPX+ZArsEhemxKQ0rWACeKtCR LX8qqgi7ig0Pzqam8XJ0nOc= =HWHY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigDE974E33589F1A682D018F77-- - 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/