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Message-ID: <20071026155833.GF23016@kroah.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:58:33 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>, Thomas Fricaccia <thomas_fricacci@...oo.com>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Crispin Cowan <crispin@...spincowan.com>, Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@...ian.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Subject: Re: Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface) On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:56:47 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a list of all known external modules and drivers > > and work to get them included in the main kernel tree to help prevent > > these kinds of things. If you know of any that are not on the list at: > > http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OutOfTreeDrivers > > please feel free to add them, or email me with the needed information > > and I will add them to the list. > > That's certainly helpful, but I still think there will always be > a number of external modules that cannot be merged right now or at > all, and deliberately making life difficult for out-of-tree code > maintainers in order to coerce them into submitting their code for > inclusion in the kernel will not work, it'll only create bad > feelings. Do you have examples of proof of this? Read Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt for how we already make out-of-tree code developer's lives hell :) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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