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auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 8:21 AM > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 05:37:08PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote: > > Users of the device mapper driver might want to obtain a device status, > > with status types defined in the status_type_t enumerator. > > The patch looks really odd. And without the corresponding user of your > new functionality it is entirely unreviewable anyway. Hi Christoph ok, I will send it together with a patch for a not yet accepted software, Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE), that will be the primary user of the introduced functionality. Regarding the patch itself, could you please provide a more detailed explanation? Thanks Roberto HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Duesseldorf GmbH, HRB 56063 Managing Director: Li Peng, Zhong Ronghua -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit