linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function [ver #2]

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:54:14 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, tadeusz.struk@...el.com,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function
 [ver #2]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 03:27:13PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 
> I have some patches I need to finish revamping.  I had it kind of working
> (though with a slightly different user interface) - then TPMv2 support was
> added to the TPM driver before I finished and I need to redo the patches.

In that case can we wait until this is ready before pushing the
user-space interface? Once you add a user-space interface it's
very difficult to change it again so we should be absolutely sure
what it's supposed to  look like before we add a new interace.

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt