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Message-ID: <20090619150514.GE1389@ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:05:14 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com, andi@...stfloor.org,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, jbeulich@...ell.com,
	peterm@...hat.com, gang.wei@...el.com, shane.wang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v4][PATCH 2/2] intel_txt: Intel(R) TXT and tboot kernel
	support

On Fri 2009-06-12 15:12:59, James Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Joseph Cihula wrote:
> 
> > Linux support for Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology.
> 
> > Signed-off-by:  Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by:  Shane Wang <shane.wang@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by:  Gang Wei <gang.wei@...el.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> 
> There have been no comments on this since you posted it, so we might 
> assume there are no further technical issues.

I believe the code at best useless and at worst dangerous. We don't
merge useless code to the kernel.

What are non-evil uses of this code?
								Pavel
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