netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/smc: mark as BROKEN due to remote memory exposure

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Date:   Tue, 16 May 2017 18:35:39 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     hch@....de, dledford@...hat.com, Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/smc: mark as BROKEN due to remote memory exposure

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:33:08PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> That doesn't cover things that don't directly touch the RDMA code or
> infiniband infrastructure.
> 
> There should have been RDMA people on netdev who saw this thing and
> cried wolf, and they would have had about an entire year, and about
> 8 instances of this series being posted in which to do so.
> 
> It's not like this got posted once or twice and went in with zero
> review.

None outside of netdev.  Really, if you get rdma patches include
linux-rdma.  Or at least linux-kernel where I will usually catch
this sort of stuff.  netdev is too high traffic and too far away
from my area of work to watch it.

But for example when I wrote my first RDMA ULP I did subsribe
to linux-rdma, started extensive discussions and fixed up lots
of core code.  There is no excuse for other people to not even
try.