[CC list trimmed] On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 02:54:05PM +0530, Mrinal Pandey wrote: > mode change 100644 => 100755 scripts/gcc-plugins/gen-random-seed.sh This is basically the only change relevant to the contribution initially made via kernel-hardening, and in my opinion (and I am list admin) isn't worth bringing to the list. Now we have this bikeshed thread in here (and I'm guilty for adding to it), and would have more (which I hope this message of mine will prevent) if changes to something else in the patch(es) are requested (which Greg KH sort of already did). I recall we previously had lots of "similar" bikeshedding in here when someone was converting the documentation to rST. The more bikeshedding we have, the less actual kernel-hardening work is going to happen, because the list gets the reputation of yet another kernel maintenance list rather than the place where actual/potential new contributions to improve the kernel's security are discussed, and because bikeshedding makes the most capable people unsubscribe or stop paying attention. How about we remove kernel-hardening from the MAINTAINERS entries it's currently in? - GCC PLUGINS M: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> R: Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> L: kernel-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx S: Maintained F: Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst F: scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins F: scripts/gcc-plugin.sh F: scripts/gcc-plugins/ LEAKING_ADDRESSES M: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx> M: Tycho Andersen <tycho@xxxxxxxx> L: kernel-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx S: Maintained T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tobin/leaks.git F: scripts/leaking_addresses.pl Alternatively, would this be acceptable? - L: kernel-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (only for messages focused on core functionality, not for maintenance detail) I think the latter would be best, if allowed. Kees, please comment (so that we'd hopefully not need that next time), and if you agree please make a change to MAINTAINERS. Mrinal, we appreciate your contribution, and the problem above isn't yours - it's with the way MAINTAINERS doesn't fit this group well. Thanks, Alexander
