Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:03:34 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: IPsec AH use of ahash |
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On 01/20/2013 07:07 AM, Tom St Denis wrote: > > In all likelihood I will submit a revised CMAC patch but it'll take > time before I can get business hours to work on it. So instead of > having a maintainer just touch it up we're all going to lose out > because of pride? >
It's not about pride. It is about the fact that maintainers don't scale. A single troublesome contributor can easily take up as much maintainer time as over a dozen contributors who know how to work well with their upstream.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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