Re: [-next PATCH] security: use octal not symbolic permissions

[Mimi Zohar]

On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 14:29 -0700, John Johansen wrote:
> On 06/12/2018 02:12 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:32 PM, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> >>
> >>> If you want to break this up by security module I would take
> >>> the Smack part as soon as James does the tree update. If James
> >>> wants to take the whole thing at once you can add my:
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> for the Smack changes.
> >>
> >> It's probably simplest for me to take them as one patch.
> > 
> > I would prefer if the SELinux changes were split into a separate
> > patch.  I'm guessing John would probably want the same for the
> > AppArmor patches, but take his work for it, not mine.
> 
> yes that would be preferred

Agreed
> 
> > 
> > Joe, in general I really appreciate the fixes you send, but these
> > patches that cross a lot of subsystem boundaries (this isn't the first
> > one that does this) causes unnecessary conflicts in -next and during
> > the merge window.  Could you split your patches up from now on please?
> > 
> 
> yeah splitting patches at subsystem boundaries is highly recommended.

Agreed