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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 00/12] x86: Support Key Locker
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On Jan 13, 2022, at 14:16, Hansen, Dave <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
> On 1/12/22 1:12 PM, Chang S. Bae wrote:
>> A couple of other things outside of these patches are still in progress:
>> * Support DM-crypt/cryptsetup for Key Locker usage (Andy Lutomirski)
>> [2].
>> * Understand decryption under-performance (Eric Biggers and Milan Broz)
>> [3][4].
>
> I really like when contributors are clear about why they are posting
> their series and what their expectations are. This posting leaves me a
> bit confused as to what you expect the maintainers to do.
>
> Should the maintainers ignore this series until those in-progress things
> are done? Or, do you expect that this could be merged as-is before
> those are resolved?

Ah, right. Yeah, this is not super clear about that.

I think it makes sense to clarify those two points -- performance implication
and user interaction in the usage case, before considering this feature
support in the mainline.

But I wanted to address feedback on the patches with this posting.

Hopefully, this clarifies the status of this series.

Thanks,
Chang

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