linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM)

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Message-ID: <20081120174506.GA20972@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:45:06 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...x-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	David Safford <safford@...son.ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM)

Ok, the API looks sane to me.  But one big question:  any reason you
don't just directly call into your implementation instead of all these
odd hooks?  This seems to be a lot of overhead just for making the code
less readable..
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