From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Grubb Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/audit.c: remove unused exports Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:53:51 -0500 Message-ID: <200611291153.51966.sgrubb@redhat.com> References: <20061128012848.GW15364@stusta.de> <20061129030441.GC15364@stusta.de> <20061129074204.GA29228@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20061129074204.GA29228@suse.de> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: linux-audit@redhat.com Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, Adrian Bunk List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Wednesday 29 November 2006 02:42, Tony Jones wrote: > Actually I believe Steve Grubb also said it so the above is factually > incorrect :) Yes, I did. I thought this was a dead issue since there was no follow up=20 discussion when I said it. > > > third party modules to generate audit messages. =A0Has anything cha= nged? > > > > Why are these third party modules you are talking about not yet merge= d > > into the kernel and when will they be submitted for inclusion? It would appear that a new audit patch to ipsec wants these and a couple = more=20 things. So, at this point we should have something queued in netdev tree = that=20 will use these. > We're talking about basic logging functionality here. Exactly. I can see 3rd party security vendors perhaps using this interfac= e as=20 well. I don't personally know of any that are using it, nor am I in=20 discussions with any, but I could see them eventually finding this and us= ing=20 it as they use other basic interfaces like syslog or file access. -Steve