From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B309C433E0 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C189224B1 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728666AbgLXTOt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:14:49 -0500 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]:53336 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728607AbgLXTOt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:14:49 -0500 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id C471D1C0BBC; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:14:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:14:04 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Torsten Duwe Cc: Marcelo Henrique Cerri , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , Stephan =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= , Willy Tarreau , Linux Crypto Mailing List , Nicolai Stange , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Matthew Garrett , Vito Caputo , Andreas Dilger , Jan Kara , Ray Strode , William Jon McCann , zhangjs , Andy Lutomirski , Florian Weimer , Lennart Poettering , Peter Matthias , Neil Horman , Randy Dunlap , Julia Lawall , Dan Carpenter , And y Lavr , Eric Biggers , Ard Biesheuvel , Petr Tesarik , simo@redhat.com Subject: Re: drivers/char/random.c needs a (new) maintainer Message-ID: <20201224191404.GC22388@amd> References: <20201130151231.GA24862@lst.de> <20201130165339.GE5364@mit.edu> <20201218132519.kj3nz7swsx7vvlr5@valinor.lan> <20201223132851.55d19271@blackhole.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="L6iaP+gRLNZHKoI4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201223132851.55d19271@blackhole.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org --L6iaP+gRLNZHKoI4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > > Any updates on that? > >=20 > > I don't believe Torsten's concerns are simply about *applying* patches > > but more about these long periods of radio silence. That kills >=20 > Exactly. I could live with replies in the style of "old" Linus like: > "Your code is crap, because it does X and Y". Then I knew how to > proceed. But this extended silence slows things down a lot. Well... you know. We now have code of conflict, so maintainers are not supposed to tell submitters that their code is ****. So... you get silence. Pavel -- p http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek --L6iaP+gRLNZHKoI4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAl/k6HwACgkQMOfwapXb+vKjKwCeLahvFkONH2dzKd2+FUqQrxp2 2n0AoJECF5MFsKgHxjma1T0j/jv8v9+2 =AiSD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --L6iaP+gRLNZHKoI4--