From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] vfs: cleanup of permission()
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:20:53 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44061035.20604@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF8335F2B0.0A730216-ON80257124.0045E22D-80257124.00475BA4@sophos.com>
tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com wrote:
>>As external module, you have little say so far simply because your usage
>>isn't visible. I'd urge you to quickly submit your code so that the
>>things you need from this are better visible to the people who are
>>thinking and working on the redesign.
> I know all that, but it is a complicated matter to discuss. That's why I
> was planning to make a comprehensive announcement which would discuss most
> of the hot topics. Ideally yes, I would like to merge, but it won't happen
> now. The first thing I would like to do is establish common ground with
> other security vendors so that we could approach the problem together.
> Personaly, I am not sure whether insisting that everything should be a
> part of kernel is a right thing to do even though I think I understand all
> the up- and down-sides of both policies.
>
> Having said all this above, I am afraid that there will be no other choice
> but to start working on the announcement asap. :)
Perhaps you can put up the work in progress on a git repository somewhere?
Sam.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-01 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-28 5:26 Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-28 5:29 ` [RFC 1/2] vfs: remove nameidata from *_permission() Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-28 5:30 ` [RFC 2/2] vfs: fixup nfs and fuse by passing nd_flags via mask Herbert Poetzl
2006-03-01 8:45 ` [RFC] vfs: cleanup of permission() Trond Myklebust
2006-03-01 12:28 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2006-03-01 12:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-01 12:59 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2006-03-01 21:20 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2006-03-01 13:06 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-03-01 21:18 ` Sam Vilain
2006-03-01 13:11 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-03-01 23:42 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-03-02 1:35 ` Sam Vilain
2006-03-02 2:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-03-01 22:11 ` Sam Vilain
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