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Message-ID: <20201130165339.GE5364@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:53:39 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
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Subject: Re: drivers/char/random.c needs a (new) maintainer
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 04:15:23PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> I am willing to maintain random.c and have intentions to have a
> formally verified RNG. I've mentioned this to Ted before.
>
> But I think Ted's reluctance to not accept the recent patches sent to
> this list is mostly justified, and I have no desire to see us rush
> into replacing random.c with something suboptimal or FIPSy.
Being a maintainer is not about *accepting* patches, it's about
*reviewing* them. I do plan to make time to catch up on reviewing
patches this cycle. One thing that would help me is if folks
(especially Jason, if you would) could start with a detailed review of
Nicolai's patches. His incremental approach is I believe the best one
from a review perspective, and certainly his cleanup patches are ones
which I would expect are no-brainers.
- Ted
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