linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for v5.9] RDS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

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Message-ID: <20200720164827.GC1080481@unreal>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:48:27 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>,
        santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for v5.9] RDS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 08:36:35AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:07:16 +0300
> Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > > Do *you* want to review that megapatch?  The number of issues that have
> > > come up make it clear that these patches do, indeed, need review...
> >
> > Can you point me to the issues?
> > What can go wrong with such a simple replacement?
>
> Some bits of the conversation:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200626110219.7ae21265@lwn.net/
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200626110706.7b5d4a38@lwn.net/
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200705142506.1f26a7e0@lwn.net/
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200713114321.783f0ae6@lwn.net/
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202007081531.085533FC5@keescook/
>
> etc.

After reading your links and especially this one.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200713114321.783f0ae6@lwn.net/
I don't understand why are we still seeing these patches?

I gave to the author comments too, which were ignored.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11644683/#23466547

Thanks

>
> jon