Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:27:51 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: Time to remove LSM (was Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks) |
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* Arjan van de Ven (arjan@infradead.org) wrote: > 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
Because the discussion we had at OLS last year (late July) was if there are no users in one year, it is gone.
> 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.
The rootkit argument is not that compelling. Lack of users certainly is.
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