Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs

On Wed, 2004-10-20 16:04:50 -0700, David S. Miller [off-list ref]
wrote in message [ref]:

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:56:25 +0200
Andi Kleen [off-list ref] wrote:

*VAX hacker's hat on*

I disagree quite strongly.  One major frustration for users of
non-x86 platforms is that functionality is often missing for some
time that we can make trivial to keep in sync.

Full ACK.

Simply put, if you're not watching the tree in painstaking detail
every day, you miss all of these enhancements.

Right; and these missing enhancements will cause extra-pain when they're
used some time later from core code. That is, you missed the feature
while it was discusses/accepted and need to put it in place later on. So
you've got to do extra searching etc.

The knowledge should come from the person putting the changes into
the tree, therefore it gets done once and this makes it so that
the other platform maintainers will find out about it automatically
next time they update their tree.

Here's my proposal:

$ mkdir ./Documentation/new_enhancements_to_implement
$ cat ./Documentation/new_enhancements_to_implement/new_key_syscalls << EOF

$

This way, all arch maintainers just *see* what needs to be done and
get a small introduction on how to do that. I'd *really* like to see
that! That would particularly help those that cannot do full-time
hacking on their port (like us VAX hackers:-)

MfG, JBG

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