linux-kernel - Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs

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]

Message-ID: <20160517053852.GA25133@lst.de>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2016 07:38:52 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs

Hi Linus,

we're not talking about a driver here - we're talking about a new API
lifted from a driver to generic code because it's commonly useful.

It's also in entirely new files and not a modification of existing code,
and it's always been clear how it is.  Some of the code has been in
since Linux 4.5 with a properly clear copyright.

I really don't understand Doug's objection, and as said if they have
a weird problem with it we can simply move it to a separate module.