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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>
Cc:     duwe@....de, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephan Müller <smueller@...onox.de>,
        Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>,
        "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>,
        Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
        Vito Caputo <vcaputo@...garu.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Ray Strode <rstrode@...hat.com>,
        William Jon McCann <mccann@....edu>,
        zhangjs <zachary@...shancloud.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
        Peter Matthias <matthias.peter@....bund.de>,
        Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        And y Lavr <andy.lavr@...il.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>, simo@...hat.com
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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