kernel-hardening - Re: [PATCH v1 12/22] docs: driver-api: add .rst files from the main dir

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Message-ID: <20190619102430.558a775e@coco.lan>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:24:30 -0300
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 12/22] docs: driver-api: add .rst files from the main
 dir

Em Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:13:08 +0200
Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> escreveu:

> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 01:50:07PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Also, cross-posting to moderated lists is rude.  
> 
> It's even worse with partially-pre-moderated lists, because then list
> moderators are forced to either accept all the mostly off-topic messages
> (as some follow-ups from other lists would get through anyway, and would
> be out of context if a message in a thread were rejected) or switch the
> list to fully pre-moderated with no exceptions for anyone (and then it's
> more work and greater delays on desirable messages).
> 
> I already brought this up with Mauro off-list, and I hope we'll see no
> more of these threads on kernel-hardening, but we'll have to let the
> rest of already started threads through.

I'll take care on a next review to explicitly remove kernel-hardening.

As I pointed in priv, as gcc-plugins file is listed at MAINTAINERS,
except if someone actively remove kernel-hardening ML from 
get_maintainers.pl results, you'll likely keep receiving e-mails with
patches that will be touching it.

> I think this has significant negative effect on the kernel-hardening
> project, shifting it further towards and beyond security circus (to
> non-security circus now) and thereby discouraging desirable
> contributions, whereas the (one relevant) file rename is unimportant
> (and buried in lots of other renames).

Sorry for that.

Thanks,
Mauro

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