linux-kernel - Re: IPsec AH use of ahash

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Message-ID: <50FC2366.1000509@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:03:34 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Tom St Denis <tstdenis@...iptictech.com>
CC:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@...il.com>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	steffen klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: IPsec AH use of ahash

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

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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