Re: [SELINUX][PATCH 1/4] Fine-grained Netlink support - SELinuxheaders update

From: James Morris
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 22:42:55 EST


On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> James Morris wrote:
> > This patch regenerates the SELinux module headers to reflect new class
> > and access vectors definitions. The size of the diff is misleading;
> > much of it is simply a change in the ordering of the automatically
> > generated definitions. The corresponding generation script has been
> > changed to ensure a stable order in the future. Please apply.
>
>
> Why not commit the generation script, and kill the auto-generated files?

The script lives in the SELinux policy compilation package, which is
considered the source of truth for these headers. They are only ever
regenerated manually when significant changes are made to SELinux (like
this), and I don't think there is any advantage in doing this in the
kernel tree.


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>


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