Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:59:00 -0400 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] padata: section cleanup |
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:15:56 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:29:31 -0400 > > > Thing is, this isn't net code and it isn't crypto code - it's a > > kernel-wide utility. > > Thanks goodness, because if we had put a private copy in the > networking or the crypto code someone would have given us a hard time. > > Wait a second... we're being given a hard time anyways. :-)
Because the target audience for this work weren't informed about it, and it would have been better if they had been.
> Kidding aside, why didn't anyone show any interest in the patch when > it was posted to lkml? You can say it was smoothered together with > some crypto stuff, but that was absolutely the logical thing to do > because the follow-on crypto patches showed what the thing was going > to be used for.
I dunno - these things happen. The padata patch appears to have been sent once to netdev as an RFC back in 2008 and didn't get any replies there either. Personally I pay less attention to patches which appear in the middle of some discussion because I assume they're for discussion purposes and will come back later.
If I'd known this code was coming I would have reviewed it at an appropriate time. Probably others are interested also.
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