On Sun, 7 May 2006 16:40:50 +0000 (UTC), christos@astron.com (Christos
Zoulas) wrote:

> I think having the choice to compile it in or not is good (for size challenged
> machines), but I can see a use of the XML code in the kernel such as
> passing configuration properties between the kernel and userland via ioctl.
> 
Is passing XML to the kernel really the best way to do that?  I confess
that my first instinct would be to parse the XML at user level, and use
some sort of TLV representation for the kernel interface.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb