Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755948AbYLEBnf (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:43:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753269AbYLEBn0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:43:26 -0500 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:48895 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751543AbYLEBnZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:43:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:42:33 +1100 (EST) From: James Morris To: david safford cc: Christoph Hellwig , Mimi Zohar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Al Viro , Serge Hallyn , Mimi Zohar Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM) In-Reply-To: <1228424014.3014.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20081203123021.GA30035@infradead.org> <1228328323.2821.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081203182300.GA31203@infradead.org> <1228342655.2821.64.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081204130949.GA18196@infradead.org> <1228424014.3014.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LRH 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1236 Lines: 32 On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, david safford wrote: > > - struct integrity_operations delcares the operations called from the > > VFS. This one is actually used. While I don't agree to Dave's > > argument, because we don't put bloat in just because people might > > eventually some day use it when they are in the right mood and the > > sun shines, thisn't isn't the one I'm talking about in this thread. > > These hooks were for alternate integrity modules, and since > no one else has defended them, we have to agree that they > should be replaced with direct calls. If you know of other modules which are planned to be ported to this framework, merged upstream and supported, then this would be similar to the situation when LSM was initially developed. You've previously mentioned some active projects here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/17/362 Are there any definite committments to push these upstream when the integrity framework is merged? - James -- James Morris -- 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/