From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] econet: Move to staging; remove from defconfig Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:38:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20101127.223845.189711153.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20101128002135.GA4562@suse.de> <20101127.172644.226781076.davem@davemloft.net> <1290909215.3292.230.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gregkh@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org To: ben@decadent.org.uk Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58682 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750947Ab0K1GiT (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:38:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1290909215.3292.230.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:53:35 +0000 > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 17:26 -0800, David Miller wrote: >> From: Greg KH >> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:21:35 -0800 >> >> > And I need an ack from the networking maintainer to be able to accept >> > this also. >> >> I'm not applying this, nor do I want anyone else to. >> >> If people think this protocol is not maintained adequately >> right now, wait until you push it into staging. >> >> Furthermore, once Phil Blundell was made aware of security >> holes in econet he fixed them within a few days. Which is >> much better than I can say for some of the other protocols >> and filesystems in the tree. > > Those bugs were present for years and would have been obvious to anyone > who cared to read the code. While I very much appreciate Phil's quick > response, I don't think this reactive maintenance is enough. These same arguments could for be made for RDS. Look at all the hellacious awful obvious crap we've discovered in that code recently. A simple read would have caught those too, and I don't see it's maintainer doing such things. So, you're very much still not convincing Ben, but feel free to keep trying.