From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Moore Subject: Re: LSPP kernels (was Re: [PATCH]: SAD sometimes has double SAs). Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:36:57 -0400 Message-ID: <200703281236.58222.paul.moore@hp.com> References: <200703232258.l2NMwKqH016994@faith.austin.ibm.com> <1175094915.3085.503.camel@faith.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joy Latten , David Miller , Eric Paris , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu , Venkat Yekkirala , Steve G , Stephen Smalley , selinux@tycho.nsa.gov To: James Morris Return-path: Received: from atlrel6.hp.com ([156.153.255.205]:34111 "EHLO atlrel6.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933055AbXC1Qhg (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:37:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, March 28 2007 12:20:24 pm James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Joy Latten wrote: > > Eric, sorry as I know you already patched lspp kernel > > for testing. > > I think it'd be better to have the lspp kernel join the upstream workflow > process, rather than being a shortcut into RHEL. > > Please consider creating an lspp git tree (based off Linus' tree), then > once patches there are tested and ready to submit upstream, post them here > or selinux-list, where they can be reviewed and applied to either my or > DaveM's git tree. > > From there, they'll be picked up in -mm for even wider testing then be > merged into mainline as appropriate. Then, they can be incorporated into > distro devel kernels when they update their kernels, or backported to > stable distro kernels as already reviewed & tested upstream patches. > > If there are any objections, please respond. I think the original intent of the LSPP kernel "series" was to test patches before they were submitted to a wider audience (not too different from what you are describing). Eric Paris became the LSPP/MLS group's Andrew Morton if you will :) However, for whatever reason, things appear to have stumbled a bit in recent months and I think making an effort to move to a more standard approach based on current kernel development would be a step in the right direction. This would probably make backports a bit more difficult but Eric's a smart guy and I'm sure he wouldn't mind :) Does anyone have access to a public site we could use to host a git tree? If no one has anything available (or is willing to maintain the tree) I might be able to do something. -- paul moore linux security @ hp