Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] EVM

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@private
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 12:39:49 PST


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:53:39 PST, Greg KH said:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:45:15PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@private wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:28:27 EST, James Morris said:
> > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, David Safford wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The term, unfortunately seems to have stuck in the literature.  Vista i
s
> > > > claiming a similar trusted boot, so perhaps we should keep the term,
> > > > while trying to be clearer about what it really means.
> > > 
> > > Who cares about Vista?
> > 
> > Those of us who, in order to deploy this, will need to get a signature from
> > a PHB who can spell Vista and heard about trusted boot from a 8.5x11 glossy
....
> 
> And this affects the kernel code how?  Please document what it really
> does, leave the marketing to others.

Of course, our kernel *code* should be done the way *we* want to do it.  I was
addressing the question of "Who cares what Vista calls it?"

So I guess I'm saying we should have a comment block or small Documentation/
file that explains and clarifies the difference, that we can point at the same
way we now point at stable-api-nonsense.txt ;)






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