Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756892AbYKTT0X (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:26:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755212AbYKTT0P (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:26:15 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:53562 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753756AbYKTT0P (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:26:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:26:12 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: david safford Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Mimi Zohar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , James Morris , Al Viro , Serge Hallyn , Mimi Zohar Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM) Message-ID: <20081120192612.GA15080@infradead.org> References: <20081120174506.GA20972@infradead.org> <1227208898.3066.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1227208898.3066.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 14 On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:21:38PM -0500, david safford wrote: > The consensus in the (insane) security community was to have an > interface with selectable modules similar to LSM and its modules, > so that users could easily choose among a set of integrity providers. So what other integrity provider is there waiting to be merged? Unless there is a realistic mid-term candidate it's just pure bloat, and we can introduce an abstraction once it's actually needed. -- 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/