Re: [PATCH][RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.

[Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>]

Hello.

Thank you for reviewing.

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > This time, I'm implementing this filesystem as an extension to tmpfs
> > because what this filesystem does are nothing but check filename and
> > its attributes in addition to what tmpfs does.
> 
> To integrate this nicer into tmpfs, at least define TMPFS_IS_MAC as 1
> and TMPFS_NOT_MAC as 0 and pass those values instead of just 1 and 0.
> 
Question to everybody:
  Not all users need this extension, so I'm worrying that integrating
  this extension into tmpfs increases memory usage needlessly.
  May I implement this filesystem as an extension to tmpfs
  provided that users can enable/disable this extension via kernel config?

> Again, I should think you'd actually want to take blkdev_open() from
> fs/block_dev.c and chrdev_open() from fs/char_dev.c.  Surely your
> method of grabbing it here is not acceptable for upstream code.
I see.

Regards.
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