linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] User space notifications about VM cloning

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Message-ID: <2023062823-upcoming-iguana-fe28@gregkh>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:08:17 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.de>
Cc:     Babis Chalios <bchalios@...zon.es>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mzxreary@...inter.de,
        xmarcalx@...zon.co.uk, Amit Shah <amit@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] User space notifications about VM cloning

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 01:22:11PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > On 16.06.23 17:07, Babis Chalios wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > Some time has passed since I sent this. Any comments/thoughts?
> > 
> > 
> > Can we please get this merged somehow? Greg, any advise?
> > 
> > This is purely a device notification event to user space, similar to network
> > link change events and the likes and has nothing to do with Jason's
> > envisioned random reseed event exposure. We can happily send RFC patches for
> > the latter after this is merged too.
> 
> Sure, I can take it, but it's the middle of the merge window and it's
> too late for anything new right now, sorry.
> 
> I'll pick it up after 6.5-rc1 is out.

Wait, no, I'm not the maintainer of this, Jason is.  And he already
rejected it (and based on the changelog text, I would too), so why are
you asking me a month later to take this?

Work with the maintainer please, don't try to route around them, you
both know better than this.

greg k-h