Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM)

[david safford]

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:45 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Ok, the API looks sane to me.  But one big question:  any reason you
> don't just directly call into your implementation instead of all these
> odd hooks?  This seems to be a lot of overhead just for making the code
> less readable..
> 

The consensus in the (insane) security community was to have an
interface with selectable modules similar to LSM and its modules,
so that users could easily choose among a set of integrity providers.

dave
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