Re: [BK PATCH] LSM changes for 2.5.27

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 09:16, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > +		error = security_ops->inode_setattr(dentry, attr);
> 
> Am I the only one who'd like to see this as an inline function?
> 1. It can be optimized away.
> 2. It's easier to read.

You are not the only one. At the kernel summit there were discussions
about both wrapping the few performance impacting ones in ifdefs, and/or
using dynamic patching.