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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:42:44 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>, Christian Ehrhardt <lk@c--e.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface
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Quoting James Morris (jmorris@namei.org):
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > If we could get a few (non-afilliated :) people who work with
> > customers in the security field to tell us whether this is being
> > used, that would be very helpful.  Not sure how to get that.
> 
> The mainline kernel does not cater to out of tree code.

(Must... resist...)

> > Or we just apply the patch and see who yells  :)
> 
> 
> It's already pretty clear.

I doubt anyone not on lkml or linux-security-module has heard of this.

So we'll see.

(I was, obviously, talking about end-users)

-serge