linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:06:55 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:57 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Yes, in principle we could move most of it to generic code. There is
> nothing architecture specific in it.
> Anybody who prefers this to be arch/x86 before moving it to lib/?

I think it's better to start off with a generic version, and test it on
more than one architecture before feeding it upstream. That way, you
know you aren't going to have to go back to the drawing board with it.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/