Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> And, did that nice interface help at all? No, it did not.
> Noone made seqfile mandatory in 2.6.

Sure it helped. We didn't make it mandatory, but new stuff ends up being 
written with it, and old stuff _does_ end up being converted to it.

> Now we have a few nice big patches to carry around because every driver
> author had its own proc implementation. Well done...

Details, please?

		Linus
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