HEADS UP: Audit integration into CVS in progress, some tree disruption

[Mike Jakubik]

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?