The future of the Linux Security Module API [LWN.net]

The future of the Linux Security Module API

Posted Apr 20, 2006 19:30 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to: The future of the Linux Security Module API by jamesm
Parent article: The future of the Linux Security Module API

So you are saying that according to the upstream review process, you cannot get another LSM user included if it does roughly the same thing as SELinux or a subset of it and also that if SELinux is the only LSM user in the kernel mainline it will be removed... nice logic.

(Nothing personal, I just realised that what you described might actually be close to reality.)

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The future of the Linux Security Module API

Posted Apr 20, 2006 19:41 UTC (Thu) by jamesm (guest, #2273) [Link]

No, I am not saying that.

All code being submitted to the mainline kernel needs to be reviewed and justified before acceptance. One of the challenges is to demonstrate why the new code is needed, which reasonably includes asking things like "why partially duplicate something which is already there?"