lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:16:57 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>, per.liden@...csson.com, allan.stephens@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tipc-discussion] [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/tipc/: possible cleanups On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:06:12PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >My impression is that most of this might have users that are not yet > > >submitted for inclusion in the kernel - one year after TIPC was merged. > > > > > > > > Not quite. The exported symbols belong to a public API for driver > > programmers. > > We know about several users of this API, and there will be more, but I > > don't think > > any of them are aspiring to have their code be included in the kernel. > >... > > Why not? > > The goal is to get as many drivers as possible included in the kernel. If we don't have any planned in-tree users for tipc we should simply drop tipc from the kernel entirely. No point to make our maintaince work harder for out of tree freeloaders. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists