From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jslaby@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeffm@suse.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, isdn4linux@koppen.de,
isdn@linux-pingi.de, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] mISDN: add support for group membership check
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:30:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130920163043.GN7729@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130920.122142.1032350399957506112.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:21:42PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:18:02 +0200
>
> > Ok, let's leave the hole in there then.
>
> Jiri, don't turn this on me.
>
> The issue is not whether something needs to be fixed or not, I never
> said "don't fix this" and therefore I'd like to ask politely that you
> not make it seem like I have.
>
> Rather, I'm saying that the implementation is terrible, sets a bad
> precendence for fixing similar problems, and therefore not is in
> a state where we can apply it.
>
> So, I'm not saying "don't fix this", I'm saying "fix it properly."
I think Jiri's last suggestion was to add the capability check to
device renaming (which I think everyone agrees is needed) and not
to add any group identity checks for any operation.
Isn't that fixing it properly?
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
- Albert Camus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-20 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-13 21:52 [patch 2/4] mISDN: add support for group membership check akpm
2013-09-14 0:00 ` David Miller
2013-09-14 23:28 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-09-20 13:44 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-09-20 15:56 ` David Miller
2013-09-20 16:14 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-09-20 16:15 ` David Miller
2013-09-20 16:18 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-09-20 16:21 ` David Miller
2013-09-20 16:30 ` Jiri Slaby
2013-09-21 15:36 ` Karsten Keil
2013-09-20 16:30 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2013-09-20 17:14 ` David Miller
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