From: Paul Moore To: Stephen Smalley , James Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH] selinux: deprecate and schedule the removal of the the compat_net functionality Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:15:16 -0500 Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov References: <20081201203833.16302.16424.stgit@flek.lan> <1228165415.18720.257.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> In-Reply-To: <1228165415.18720.257.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200812011615.17013.paul.moore@hp.com> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Monday 01 December 2008 4:03:35 pm Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 15:38 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > This patch is the first step towards removing the old "compat_net" > > code from the kernel. Secmark, the "compat_net" replacement has > > been around for several kernel releases > > FWIW, secmark was first included in the Linux 2.6.18 release in Sep > 2006. That's a bit more than "several kernel releases" ;) Po-tay-to ... Po-tah-to ;) If the patch gets bounced for some reason I'll update the text. Which brings up a good point; James, assuming there are no objections do you want to pull this into the security-testing tree for 2.6.29 or would you prefer I keep it in the lblnet tree? -- paul moore linux @ hp -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.