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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/13] ima: Introduce staging mechanism
To: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com>,
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Thanks for the response Roberto.

On 5/12/2026 1:17 AM, Roberto Sassu wrote:

>>>
>>> This submission proposes two ways for log trimming:
>>>
>>> *Flavor 1:* Staging With Prompt
>>> *Flavor 2:* Stage and Delete N
>>>
> 
> I'm happy to support your trimming method. Just does not fit with my
> use case. I would like to keep both.
> 

If "Flavor 1: Staging With Prompt" would be beneficial to the Linux 
kernel customers, in general, we should continue to review the change 
and merge it eventually.

My request, then, would be to split this patch set into 2 parts:

	Part 1: Implements "Staging With Prompt"

	Part 2: Implements "Stage and Delete N"

I think that would make it easier for reviewing the code, test\validate, 
and merge.

Thanks,
  -lakshmi