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SubjectRe: IPsec AH use of ahash
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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