Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/12] AppArmor: userspace interfaces | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:44:27 +0100 |
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Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:13 PM, John Johansen > <john.johansen@canonical.com> wrote: >> The current apparmorfs interface is compatible with previous versions >> of AppArmor. The plans are to deprecate it (hence the config option >> APPARMOR_COMPAT_24) and replace it with a more sysfs style single >> entry per file interface. > > We don't usually merge compatibility code to handle ABIs that were > developed out-of-tree. Why should we treat AppArmor differently?
I would say that always depends on the deployed base of the old ABI. If there's a lot of users who would get broken I think there's a good case for merging compat code (I don't know if that is or isn't the case here).
A widely used distribution release with the old user land would probably count.
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