Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

[Olaf Hering]

 On Wed, Jan 26, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

2.5 was the right time to enforce 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?

You did it this way:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@4115cba3UCrZo9SnkQp0apTO3SghJQ
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