On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > The only code that we really want to see in the mainline kernel is the hooks > for permission checks. Personally I would not mind if no security module > ever gets included in Linus' source tree. I'd disagree. I would like to see selinux included in the mainstream kernel someday, but I know that selinux needs quite a bit of work (Christoph says "rewrite") to make it acceptable. It also doesn't make much sense to submit selinux until after the remainder of LSM has been submitted for possible merging and after some level of pruning and refinement of LSM has occurred. I would also expect other security modules, e.g. DTE, to be submitted by their authors eventually. If there aren't any in-tree users of LSM, then there is little motivation for the kernel developers to retain LSM. -- Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs ssmalleyat_private _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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