From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:53:35 +0000 > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 17:26 -0800, David Miller wrote: >> From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> >> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:21:35 -0800 >> >> > And I need an ack from the networking maintainer to be able to accept >> > this also. >> >> I'm not applying this, nor do I want anyone else to. >> >> If people think this protocol is not maintained adequately >> right now, wait until you push it into staging. >> >> Furthermore, once Phil Blundell was made aware of security >> holes in econet he fixed them within a few days. Which is >> much better than I can say for some of the other protocols >> and filesystems in the tree. > > Those bugs were present for years and would have been obvious to anyone > who cared to read the code. While I very much appreciate Phil's quick > response, I don't think this reactive maintenance is enough. These same arguments could for be made for RDS. Look at all the hellacious awful obvious crap we've discovered in that code recently. A simple read would have caught those too, and I don't see it's maintainer doing such things. So, you're very much still not convincing Ben, but feel free to keep trying. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
