linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] padata: section cleanup

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Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:59:00 -0400
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, henne@...htwindheim.de,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] padata: section cleanup

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:15:56 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:29:31 -0400
> 
> > Thing is, this isn't net code and it isn't crypto code - it's a
> > kernel-wide utility.
> 
> Thanks goodness, because if we had put a private copy in the
> networking or the crypto code someone would have given us a hard time.
> 
> Wait a second... we're being given a hard time anyways. :-)

Because the target audience for this work weren't informed about it,
and it would have been better if they had been.

> Kidding aside, why didn't anyone show any interest in the patch when
> it was posted to lkml?  You can say it was smoothered together with
> some crypto stuff, but that was absolutely the logical thing to do
> because the follow-on crypto patches showed what the thing was going
> to be used for.

I dunno - these things happen.  The padata patch appears to have been
sent once to netdev as an RFC back in 2008 and didn't get any replies
there either.  Personally I pay less attention to patches which appear
in the middle of some discussion because I assume they're for
discussion purposes and will come back later.

If I'd known this code was coming I would have reviewed it at an
appropriate time.  Probably others are interested also.
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