Re: [2.6 patch] security/: possible cleanups

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:08:01PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > I see no issue with the keys changes, except I'd rather see key_duplicate
> > removed entirely if it's not getting used.  David, is there a plan to
> > put it to use, or can Adrian remove it?
> 
> There was a keyctl call for it, I thought. I wonder what happened to it. Let
> me think about what I want to do with it. Note that if key_duplicate() gets
> removed, then the key_type->duplicate() op may as well be rooted out and shot
> too.

Have you thought about what to do with key_duplicate()?

> The rest of the patch looks vaguely okay.
> 
> David

cu
Adrian

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