linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position [ver #2]

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Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:59:25 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc:	torvalds@...l.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file
 position [ver #2]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, David Howells wrote:

> From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
> 
> Make the file position maintained by /proc/keys represent the ID of the key
> just read rather than the number of keys read.  This should make it faster to
> perform a lookup as we don't have to scan the key ID tree from the beginning to
> find the current position.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>


This does not apply to my tree:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

Looks like it's due to pending changes in the same file.  Could you please 
generate this patch against my tree? 


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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