From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755122AbeDCXLA (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:11:00 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f181.google.com ([209.85.223.181]:40438 "EHLO mail-io0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753305AbeDCXK5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:10:57 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx4/9yl5Y7mtxMra4zc4jSlxm1OGYqERiGGHKNOU8sT21YL3ROcDuSUmrySPzoxb2sFJWC8Vevhs7nwUF9cJZgdA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4136.1522452584@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <186aeb7e-1225-4bb8-3ff5-863a1cde86de@kernel.org> <30459.1522739219@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <9758.1522775763@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <13189.1522784944@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <9349.1522794769@warthog.procyon.org.uk> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:10:55 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: eelB7W0ujQUOEttPJ5D8HE-6R5I Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Kernel lockdown for secure boot To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Andrew Lutomirski , David Howells , Ard Biesheuvel , James Morris , Alan Cox , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Justin Forbes , linux-man , joeyli , LSM List , Linux API , Kees Cook , linux-efi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:08 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This discussion is over until you give an actual honest-to-goodness > reason for why you tied the two features together. No more "Why not?" > crap. Side note: I suspect the reason is something along the lines of "there are political reasons". But dammit, if that's the case, those should be documented and explained, not answered with "why not" when people ask why something is the case. Linus