Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752577AbYJaVDV (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:03:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752568AbYJaVCx (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:02:53 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:39673 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752332AbYJaVCu (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:02:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM) From: Dave Hansen To: Mimi Zohar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Morris , David Safford , Serge Hallyn , Mimi Zohar In-Reply-To: <1225481722.21941.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <7c05f813215804a30d03821fd8e251b250d0e000.1223869200.git.zohar@localhost.localdomain> <1225471251.12673.408.camel@nimitz> <1225481722.21941.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:02:47 -0700 Message-Id: <1225486967.12673.418.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 704 Lines: 17 On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 15:35 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > Is this even useful for filesystems like proc or sysfs? Should we bloat > > those inodes for a feature which might not possibly apply there? > > Currently, we're not measuring proc or sysfs files. So, one of the points is that this "bloats" 'struct inode' for at least these two filesystems. It has no use there, so it does not help much to stick it in a common structure that those use. -- Dave -- 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/