On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:04:08PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 11:43 -0500, Will Drewry wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I'd like to be able to move along security for the platform today and > > > not in two years, but if my only chance of any form of this being > > > ACK'd is to write it such that it shares code with perf and has a > > > shiny new ABI, then I'll queue up the work for when I can start trying > > > to tackle it. > > > > As this seems to be dragging on, and does not look to be solved by > > October, I would like to propose this topic for the Kernel Summit in > > Prague. I believe all parties involved may be there, and if not, I will > > push hard to get them there. > > > > Email is not always the best median for discussions. Face to face can > > usually solve things much quicker. > > How about we put it in as-is and mark it experimental, and then folks > can discuss improvements to it in Oct after all the API users have had > a chance to play with it? Four months seems like a needless delay to me. > I respect the objections, but it doesn't seem to balance against the > demonstrated need for this feature when faced with a viable working patch > series. We can't add something and then remove it if userspace programs are depending on it, sorry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
