From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld via dev" Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] treewide cleanup of random integer usage Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 06:53:14 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20221005214844.2699-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> <202210052148.B11CBC60@keescook> Reply-To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp2.osuosl.org B8AED40C80 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp2.osuosl.org CBC0040223 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp4.osuosl.org 1686F41936 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp4.osuosl.org AD9594192D DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zx2c4.com; s=20210105; t=1665060806; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=+Hkd+03ZPFCZHL4SytFYjQxSlVLh/tCnsKNFxa5wK+g=; b=JFNs4Hazt/h3DVxpbrAbzMPE9whooDcKk8uIX5aTYNyaQ0ww6ONDZEpvj0pBCk5Bkl2DLt ktmEJcNw1Kn2Ot/YdbAehCwxq7qPZvj6WGsUyAnJyfFHg6BU5H6pbom+jt+FBFixHsfFyw FXN6BTv1V4qGzBVuWo2f1r2ZOkBYL5M= Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202210052148.B11CBC60@keescook> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ovs-dev-bounces-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" To: Kees Cook Cc: Andrew Lunn , "Darrick J . Wong" , Ulf Hansson , dri-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org, Andrii Nakryiko , Hans Verkuil , linux-sctp-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "Md . Haris Iqbal" , Miquel Raynal , Christoph Hellwig , Andy Gospodarek , Sergey Matyukevich , Rohit Maheshwari , Michael Ellerman , ceph-devel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Christophe Leroy , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Nilesh Javali , Jean-Paul Roubelat , Dick Kennedy , Jay Vosburgh , Potnuri Bharat Teja , Vinay Kumar Yadav , linux-nfs@vg On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 09:55:43PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > It'd be nice to capture some (all?) of the above somewhere. Perhaps just > a massive comment in the header? I'll include (something like) this in some "how to use" documentation I'm working on separately. > > I've CC'd get_maintainers.pl, which is a pretty big list. Probably some > > portion of those are going to bounce, too, and everytime you reply to > > this thread, you'll have to deal with a bunch of bounces coming > > immediately after. And a recipient list this big will probably dock my > > email domain's spam reputation, at least temporarily. Sigh. I think > > that's just how it goes with treewide cleanups though. Again, let me > > know if I'm doing it wrong. > > I usually stick to just mailing lists and subsystem maintainers. Lord have mercy I really wish I had done that. I supremely butchered the sending of this, and then tried to save it by resubmitting directly to vger with the same message ID but truncated CC, which mostly worked, but the whole thing is a mess. I'll trim this to subsystem maintainers and resubmit a v2 right away, rather than having people wade through the mess. To any one who's reading this: no more replies to v1! It clogs the tubes. > If any of the subsystems ask you to break this up (I hope not), I've got Oh god I surely hope not. Sounds like a massive waste of time and paperwork. Jason