linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/12] AppArmor: userspace interfaces

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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:29:52 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] AppArmor: userspace interfaces

Hi John,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:13 PM, John Johansen
<john.johansen@...onical.com> wrote:
> The current apparmorfs interface is compatible with previous versions
> of AppArmor.  The plans are to deprecate it (hence the config option
> APPARMOR_COMPAT_24) and replace it with a more sysfs style single
> entry per file interface.

We don't usually merge compatibility code to handle ABIs that were
developed out-of-tree. Why should we treat AppArmor differently?

                        Pekka
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