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List:       selinux
Subject:    Re: [RFC]integrity: SELinux patch
From:       James Morris <jmorris () namei ! org>
Date:       2007-09-20 21:16:05
Message-ID: Xine.LNX.4.64.0709201414120.16685 () us ! intercode ! com ! au
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> Don't worry about conflicts with pending patches; just make a clean
> patch (where a clean patch follows the usual guidelines and doesn't
> include commented-out code) against some well-defined baseline (linus,
> mm, or selinux.git).  Using the for-akpm branch of selinux.git makes it
> easier for James to merge of course, but as -mm includes that branch, it
> should be the same except as other patches in mm might happen to overlap
> and except as one happens to lag behind the other.

Generally, a patch against the latest Linus git will work fine, as that is 
what -mm is against, and if there are conflicts, they need to be resolved 
there anyway.


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

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