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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:03:31 -0500
From:      Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        trustedbsd-audit@TrustedBSD.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Audit integration into CVS in progress, some tree disruption
Message-ID:  <43E14C53.3060400@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060201222704.G87763@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20060201221213.L87763@fledge.watson.org>	<43E134AB.8000600@t-hosting.hu> <20060201222704.G87763@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
>
>> Do you plan to merge it to RELENG_6? If so, when? Maybe for the 
>> upcoming 6.1? Or only for 6.2 or later?
>
> It depends a bit how well this shakes out.  The code is definitely 
> still "experimental", in that the set of events audited is not yet 
> complete.  There are three general sorts of weaknesses in the set of 
> events currently audited:
> With all this in mind, it is not yet ruled out that we could ship 
> initial "experimental" audit support in 6.1-RELEASE.  In fact, the 
> timing is currently such that it will be possible, assuming all goes 
> well, and allowing for the fact that it really will be an experimental 
> feature and not production feature in 6.1.  We were quite careful to 
> merge the necessary ABI changes to RELENG_6 before the 6.0 release so 
> that merging it would be possible without breaking existing 6.x device 
> drivers.

Personally, i would like to see less "experimental" code in 6.1. Perhaps 
it would be better to wait until everyone feels the code is ready?



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