From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752442Ab3ATRFe (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:05:34 -0500 Received: from [198.137.202.10] ([198.137.202.10]:42693 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752366Ab3ATRFd (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:05:33 -0500 Message-ID: <50FC2366.1000509@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:03:34 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom St Denis CC: Mike Galbraith , Eric Dumazet , "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" , David Miller , steffen klassert , herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Michal Kubecek Subject: Re: IPsec AH use of ahash References: <2012247681.93123.1358694444237.JavaMail.root@elliptictech.com> In-Reply-To: <2012247681.93123.1358694444237.JavaMail.root@elliptictech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/20/2013 07:07 AM, Tom St Denis wrote: > > In all likelihood I will submit a revised CMAC patch but it'll take > time before I can get business hours to work on it. So instead of > having a maintainer just touch it up we're all going to lose out > because of pride? > It's not about pride. It is about the fact that maintainers don't scale. A single troublesome contributor can easily take up as much maintainer time as over a dozen contributors who know how to work well with their upstream. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.