On Wednesday, March 28 2007 12:20:24 pm James Morris wrote:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Joy Latten wrote:

quoted

Eric, sorry as I know you already patched lspp kernel
for testing.

I think it'd be better to have the lspp kernel join the upstream workflow
process, rather than being a shortcut into RHEL.

Please consider creating an lspp git tree (based off Linus' tree), then
once patches there are tested and ready to submit upstream, post them here
or selinux-list, where they can be reviewed and applied to either my or
DaveM's git tree.

From there, they'll be picked up in -mm for even wider testing then be
merged into mainline as appropriate.  Then, they can be incorporated into
distro devel kernels when they update their kernels, or backported to
stable distro kernels as already reviewed & tested upstream patches.

If there are any objections, please respond.

I think the original intent of the LSPP kernel "series" was to test patches 
before they were submitted to a wider audience (not too different from what 
you are describing).  Eric Paris became the LSPP/MLS group's Andrew Morton if 
you will :)

However, for whatever reason, things appear to have stumbled a bit in recent 
months and I think making an effort to move to a more standard approach based 
on current kernel development would be a step in the right direction.  This 
would probably make backports a bit more difficult but Eric's a smart guy and 
I'm sure he wouldn't mind :)

Does anyone have access to a public site we could use to host a git tree?  If 
no one has anything available (or is willing to maintain the tree) I might be 
able to do something.

-- 
paul moore
linux security @ hp