On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed.
>
> I'd like to understand who is (or claims to be) adversely affected by this
> change, and what their complaints (if any) will be.
>
> Because I prefer my flamewars pre- rather than post-merge.
This was already discussed and resolved during previous postings of the
patch.
In a nutshell, there is no safe way to unload an LSM. The modular
interface is thus unecessary and broken infrastructure. It is used only
by out-of-tree modules, which are often binary-only, illegal, abusive of
the API and dangerous, e.g. silently re-vectoring SELinux.
Chris has already agreed to take the patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/24/152
> aww man, you passed over an opportunity to fix vast amounts of coding style
> cruftiness.
GregKH-esque :-)
> <does whizzy things>
>
> Here you go..
Thanks.
--
James Morris
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