netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Bug fixes for net/handshake

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Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 19:58:45 -0400
From: Chuck Lever <cel@...nel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: kernel-tls-handshake@...ts.linux.dev, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dan.carpenter@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Bug fixes for net/handshake

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 04:47:15PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2023 19:16:40 -0400 Chuck Lever wrote:
> > On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 01:39:18PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Thu, 04 May 2023 11:24:12 -0400 Chuck Lever wrote:  
> > > > I plan to send these as part of a 6.4-rc PR.  
> > > 
> > > Can you elaborate?  You'll send us the same code as PR?
> > > I'm about to send the first batch of fixes to Linus,
> > > I was going to apply this series.  
> > 
> > Since I am listed as a maintainer/supporter of net/handshake, I
> > assumed I can and should be sending changes through nfsd or some
> > other repo I can commit to.
> > 
> > netdev@ is also listed in MAINTAINERS, so I Cc'd you all on this
> > series. I did not intend for you to be responsible for merging the
> > series. We'll need to agree on a workflow going forward.
> 
> Let me talk to DaveM and Paolo -- with NFS being the main user
> taking it via your trees is likely fine. But if it's a generic TLS
> handshake and other users will appear - netdev trees may be a more
> natural central point :S DaveM and Paolo are more familiar with
> existing cases of similar nature (rxrpc?)..

Makes sense. We expect NVMe to become a consumer in the near future,
and have considered a putative in-kernel QUIC implementation to be
another potential consumer down the road.