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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: IPsec AH use of ahash
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:03:34 -0800
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Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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To: Tom St Denis <tstdenis@elliptictech.com>
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On 01/20/2013 07:07 AM, Tom St Denis wrote:
>
> In all likelihood I will submit a revised CMAC patch but it'll take
> time before I can get business hours to work on it.  So instead of
> having a maintainer just touch it up we're all going to lose out
> because of pride?
>

It's not about pride.  It is about the fact that maintainers don't 
scale.  A single troublesome contributor can easily take up as much 
maintainer time as over a dozen contributors who know how to work well 
with their upstream.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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