On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:37:27AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting James Morris ([email protected]):
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> >
> > > > It's already pretty clear.
> > >
> > > I doubt anyone not on lkml or linux-security-module has heard of this.
> > >
> > > So we'll see.
> > >
> > > (I was, obviously, talking about end-users)
> >
> > If distributions are shipping binary modules and other out of tree code to
> > their users, then they should bear responsibility for supporting and
> > maintaining the infrastructure required for it, and not expect upstream
> > maintainers to do it for them.
> >
> > Additionally, if they want to expose their users to risks arising from
> > broken and unecessary infrastructure, then they should bear the cost and
> > responsibility of doing that and not expect others to do so as well.
> >
> > I don't see how this is even slightly difficult to understand.
>
> I'm not talking about distros - I don't see how this is even slightly
> difficult to understand :)
>
> The situation I have in mind is someone who decideds to use, say, SLIM,
> but wants to otherwise use the distro kernel.
>...
AFAIR this does anyway not work because at least the version of SLIM
that once was in -mm required some patching of the kernel.
> -serge
cu
Adrian
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