From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756317AbZADEv6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 23:51:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751769AbZADEvu (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 23:51:50 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:56004 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751639AbZADEvt (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 23:51:49 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Gabor MICSKO , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Grsecurity is about to be discontinued, unless... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:16:50 PST." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1231013176.6497.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1231044704_3941P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:51:44 -0500 Message-ID: <24107.1231044704@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1231044704_3941P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:16:50 PST, Linus Torvalds said: > On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Gabor MICSKO wrote: > > In short, I would like to know what is your answer to this request. And > > in the case if you see no chance for the integration, I would like to > > know what is the reason behind this decision. > > Quite frankly, historically the patches have been a mis-match of > > - some sane stuff Probably the best way to proceed would be for the stakeholders to come to some agreement on which parts are the "sane stuff" (which could be an interesting food fight), split those parts out, and submit them for inclusion as standalone separate patches. It's a shame that the grsecurity developers had issues with the LSM architecture, as their RBAC would probably be a nice addition to the slowly-growing set of LSM modules. --==_Exmh_1231044704_3941P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJYEBgcC3lWbTT17ARAqwuAKCAID6ARFbr4FqYHu338ALTYAiEowCg1YU8 Tqm4z69Ha1ZsmKaT0SxscY8= =HfcH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1231044704_3941P--