Re: 2.5 Ready list - Kernel Hooks

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 02:30:54 EST


On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:49:22PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> The downside of course is that one solution may not suit all,
> and in some cases (where the above aspects are not critical)
> people might prefer as a matter of taste to have explicit subsystem
> specific calls that clearly indicate the kind of component using the
> hooks. (Am wondering if this is one of the reasons why LSM
> would prefer not to link up with kernel hooks. Is that it ?)

Yes, that is one of the main reasons LSM doesn't want to use such a
mechanism. A simple, explicit, function call is fine for what we need
to do.

thanks,

greg k-h
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