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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: jdennis@snapserver.com, marcelo@conectiva.com.br,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Congrats Marcelo,
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:33:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020301183325.GI2711@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200203010930.JAA133129.aeb@cwi.nl>
In-Reply-To: <UTC200203010930.JAA133129.aeb@cwi.nl>

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:30:01AM +0000, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Marcelo writes:
> 
> > I think its not possible to distribute crypto stuff in the stock kernel.
> > Am I wrong?
> 
> Some years ago I submitted a patch to include the loop device
> in the default kernel, and that generated a lot of mail explaining
> why this would lead to terrible problems. But Linus took the patch
> and I have not heard of political problems.
> 
> Nobody knows for sure, and the rules are unclear, but for the time
> being maybe it suffices to judge submissions on technical merit,
> without worrying too much about politics.
> 

Linus may have taken the loop device, but he doesn't have any encryption in
there AFAIK...

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-01 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-01  9:30 Congrats Marcelo, Andries.Brouwer
2002-03-01 18:33 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-02  4:13 Dennis, Jim
2002-03-02 18:24 ` David Ford
2002-03-03 22:58 ` Florian Weimer
2002-02-26 20:38 Dennis, Jim
2002-02-26 20:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-26 21:06 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-26 21:56   ` Steve Lord
2002-02-24 23:39     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26 23:07       ` Steve Lord
2002-02-25  0:10         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26 23:23       ` Rainer Ellinger
2002-02-25  0:38         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26 23:59         ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-27  0:47           ` Rainer Ellinger
2002-02-27  1:03             ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-27  1:08             ` Matthew D. Pitts
2002-02-26 22:59     ` Alan Cox
2002-02-26 22:59       ` Steve Lord
2002-02-26 23:00     ` J.A. Magallon
2002-02-28 21:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-03-01  0:01   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-01  0:37     ` Dave Jones
2002-03-01  1:13       ` Alan Cox
2002-03-01  1:03         ` Dave Jones
2002-03-01  1:51           ` Alan Cox
2002-03-01  1:28     ` Theodore Tso
2002-03-01  1:53       ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-02 22:35         ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2002-03-02  3:43   ` Stephen Degler
2002-02-28 22:41 ` Bill Davidsen

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