From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750822AbWDQUZE (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:25:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750908AbWDQUZE (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:25:04 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53227 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822AbWDQUZB (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:25:01 -0400 Subject: Re: Time to remove LSM (was Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks) From: Arjan van de Ven To: Chris Wright Cc: James Morris , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Stephen Smalley , T?r?k Edwin , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <20060417202037.GB3615@sorel.sous-sol.org> References: <200604021240.21290.edwin@gurde.com> <200604072138.35201.edwin@gurde.com> <1144863768.32059.67.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <200604142301.10188.edwin@gurde.com> <1145290013.8542.141.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <20060417162345.GA9609@infradead.org> <1145293404.8542.190.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <20060417173319.GA11506@infradead.org> <20060417202037.GB3615@sorel.sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:24:53 +0200 Message-Id: <1145305493.2847.86.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 13:20 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * James Morris (jmorris@namei.org) wrote: > > How about enough time to get us to 2.6.18, say, two months? > > Based on the discussions we had last year, I think the fair date would > be August not June. why? this is already a year notice... lets get it over with.. notice goes in now removal to -mm, goes into 2.6.18 as it is its one helluva hook for the rootkit guys with only pain on the kernel side (eg selinux) because of the super abstraction.