> There's also the question of ongoing maintenance in the > mainline kernel. Unfortunately, there's been an increasing > trend recently for companies to drop code over the wall. For > example, once they get it to some basic level of completeness, > and the initial patches are merged, their developers are > reassigned to other projects and the upstream maintainers > are left with code that's not yet up to Linux kernel quality > and also something they may not understand very well. So, we > need to know whether TCS or anyone else with expert knowledge > of MLS will be helping months or years down the track, once this > code has been merged.
We are prepared to help with ongoing support for maintenance and improvement of the code accepted into the kernel. We like having the benefit of providing guidance for the OS security development, which is needed for our solutions, even though there is some added cost. This is one the reasons we are porting our solutions to Linux. The bottom line is the security functionality is a necessary component for our applications, and we don't want to be dependent on others to make sure the functionality is being maintained correctly. -Chad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
