linux-kernel - Re: IMA: Fine-tuning for three function implementations

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Date:   Mon, 8 May 2017 17:26:00 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-ima-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     linux-ima-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
        James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IMA: Fine-tuning for three function implementations

> Sorry, these changes make backporting and upstreaming other changes
> more difficult without much benefit.

I guess that they show general development challenges for further
software evolution as usual.
Would it be nice to achieve a bit more code reduction and improved
run time characteristics also for the affected logging functions?

Regards,
Markus