From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753796Ab0DAHQC (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 03:16:02 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54814 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753039Ab0DAHPz (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 03:15:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100401.001556.24588152.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, henne@nachtwindheim.de, steffen.klassert@secunet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] padata: section cleanup From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100331202931.146ef1b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20100331180445.98dbcb55.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100401013845.GA19580@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100331202931.146ef1b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:29:31 -0400 > Thing is, this isn't net code and it isn't crypto code - it's a > kernel-wide utility. Thanks goodness, because if we had put a private copy in the networking or the crypto code someone would have given us a hard time. Wait a second... we're being given a hard time anyways. :-) Kidding aside, why didn't anyone show any interest in the patch when it was posted to lkml? You can say it was smoothered together with some crypto stuff, but that was absolutely the logical thing to do because the follow-on crypto patches showed what the thing was going to be used for.