On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:09:17AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting grundig ([email protected]):
> > El Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:32:30 -0700,
> > Crispin Cowan <[email protected]> escribi?:
> >
> > > Our controls on changing the name space have rather poor granularity at
> > > the moment. We hope to improve that over time, and especially if LSM
> > > evolves to permit it. This is ok, because as Andi pointed out, there are
> > > currently few applications using name spaces, so we have time to improve
> > > the granularity.
> >
> > Wouldn't have more sense to improve it and then submit it instead of the
> > contrary? At least is the rule which AFAIK is applied to every feature
> > going in the kernel, specially when there's an available alternative
> > which users can use meanwhile (see reiser4...)
>
> hah, that's funny
>
> When people do that, they are rebuked for not submitting upstream. At
> least this way, we can have a discussion about whether the approach
> makes sense at all.
When an out of tree user is requesting a change for which it will likely be
the only user (such that it can make it in tree), caution is warranted. But
it does create a bit of a chicken and egg conundrum for the proposer.
At least this is the way it's always seemed to me (re: the requested VFS/LSM
changes). Anyways, it's not an issue and there isn't a lot of point dwelling
over past LSM history. I 100% agree with Serge, discussion first about the
approach is definately the way to go.
Tony
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