On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:44:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:What is not policy is the blacklist or whitelist information. And I'm also a bit concerned why "is policy" is that much a reason against setting *reasonable default policies* without requiring the user to do various things in userspace. Especially since this creates some nasty interdependencies between the kernel and userspace. And as an example, couldn't you equally say it's wrong that the kernel enables DMA on disks instead of leaving it to userspace? We've already seen the udev disaster where upgrading from Debian 3.1 to Debian 4.0 means upgrading from kernel 2.6.8 to 2.6.18 with the udev version in Debian 3.1 not supporting kernel 2.6.18 and the udev version in Debian 4.0 not supporting kernel 2.6.8, and I don't have a good feeling about outsourcing more and more things to userspace tools not distributed with the kernel. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -
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