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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Renumber AUDIT_TTY_[GS]ET
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:31:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070823193121.GM21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070823073241.2c470cb5@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:32:41AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:19:53 +0100
> Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > From: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Renumber AUDIT_TTY_[GS]ET to avoid a conflict with netlink message
> > types already used in the wild.
> 
> which are these? Were they in mainline or -mm before?
> 
> also, if this is so sensitive, at least add something that says to never ever use 1014/1015...

AUDIT_TTY_*ET went into mainline directly and I'd missed the conflict with
the numbers already in use by audit-subtree patches.  I *had* noticed when
pushing audit-subtree to -mm, swore at myself and renumbered those.  Alas,
there's userland to deal with.
	* auditctl has subtree support merged
	* auditctl still doesn't have tty... support merged
	* it's built with numbers matching the original patchset (1014/1015)
and binaries are released
	* audit-subtree patchset is in RH beta kernel, also released

Vote of auditctl maintainer had been "renumber tty_...* until it's too late,
since that's the one userland doesn't support yet".  The author of tty patches
agrees (see above) and I also think that this is the best way out of that mess.

Again, it's largely my fault - I'd missed the conflict in the first place and
hadn't reacted immediately.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-23 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-23  9:19 [PATCH] Renumber AUDIT_TTY_[GS]ET Al Viro
2007-08-23 14:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-23 19:31   ` Al Viro [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-15 20:53 Miloslav Trmac

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