Re: [PATCH net-next v6 00/23] WireGuard: Secure Network Tunnel

Ard Biesheuvel
2018-10-02T06:04:08Z

On 2 October 2018 at 05:45, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 5:39 AM Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>> > I would also strongly prefer that all crypto work is taken through
>> > Herbert's tree, so we have a coherent view of it before it goes
>> > upstream.
>>
>> I agree. I don't have any problems with the zinc code living in
>> its own git tree. But any upstream merges should definitely go
>> through the crypto tree because the inherent ties between the two
>> code-base.
>
> I can send you pull requests then if there are development cycles when
> there are in fact relations between the two trees. I'll update the
> commit message describing Zinc to include this.
>

Can you explain why you it is so important to you that your changes
remain outside the crypto tree?

Also, I still think the name Zinc (zinc is not crypto/) is needlessly
divisive and condescending, and unsaying it (in v2 and up) doesn't
really work on the Internet (especially since you are still repeating
it in your conference talk.)