Re: [PATCH v3 00/36] net/tcp: Add TCP-AO support

Dmitry Safonov
2022-11-01T17:35:48Z

Hi David,

On 11/1/22 02:22, David Ahern wrote:
> Thinking about how to move the TCP-AO intent forward: clearly a 36-patch
> set is a bit much. The first 6 patches are prep work, and we know there
> is a use case for those.
>
> We could handle patches 3 and 4 as a stand alone set first.
>
> Once merged, deal with the crypto API and users until those maintainers
> are good. That would be patches 1, 2, 5 and 6.
>
> Once those are merged it drops down to just networking patches with
> selftests. Those can be split into AO (19) and selftests (11) making it
> 4 total sets of manageable size.
>
> The AO patches can be reviewed until convergence on a good starting point.
>
> Sound reasonable?

That sounds reasonable to me.
I'll submit patches 3 & 4 for review and then, once merged, 1, 2, 5 and
6. And later (re)-base TCP-AO on linux-next.

Thanks,
Dmitry