Re: [PATCH] make security_ops EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()

Greg KH
2006-04-21T16:56:31Z

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:34:23PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > If people want to remove security_ops, that's fine (not for 2.6.17, but
> > assuming you guys can come to some reasonable agreement, at some later
> > date). But turning it into a GPL-only, but leaving all the infrastructure
> > requiring it is not.
>
> Fair enough, I'll work toward removing security_ops so that it is no
> longer needed at all.

Ok, that was pretty foolish of me to attempt. We could move all of the
inline functions in security.h to a .c file for when the LSM framework
is enabled, but that might cause some slowdowns. Although I remember
that Kurt Garloff did some work in this area in the past, showing that
moving these out of inline caused some improvements on ia64.

Anyway, for now I'm not going to worry about this, it isn't that
important...

Sorry for the noise.

greg k-h