From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750734AbWFKQ60 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:58:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750780AbWFKQ60 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:58:26 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:44707 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750734AbWFKQ60 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:58:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:55:51 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Anne Thrax , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Removal of security/root_plug.c Message-ID: <20060611165551.GA18032@kroah.com> References: <448B5449.2030605@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:43:55PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >Apparently security/root_plug.c was written for a Linux Journal article, > >and while it does do a good job of explaining LSM, I don't see much use for > >it in the mainstream kernel. I suggest that it be removed, because I don't > >think that it serves much purpose. I doubt that anyone actually uses this, > >for if they did, I think that it would be modified and have many additions. > >Even the author states that it is just a starting point. Maybe the article > >(if Linux Journal is okay with it) along with the code should be moved to > >Documentation/? > > > At least it should be kept in the new DDK Greg released, if it is going to > be removed from mainline. It's not going to be removed any time soon. thanks, greg k-h