On 6/6/2014 8:23 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Casey Schaufler (ca...@schaufler-ca.com): >> On 6/5/2014 9:42 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: >>> Quoting Greg KH (gre...@linuxfoundation.org): >>>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 06:39:09PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote: >>>>> On Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:59:11 PM Jiri Kosina wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote: >>>>>>> James has had to step back from doing kernel work for a few weeks, so >>>>>>> I've offered to step up and handle the security patches to get shuttled >>>>>>> to Linus for merging for a while. >>>>>> As exactly this (working with active contributors to help co-maintain the >>>>>> subsystem) has been brought at the ksummit maling list, I am just curious >>>>>> whether noone else actively working in that area was willing to step up? >>>>>> >>>>>> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git -f security/ >>>>>> James Morris <james.l.mor...@oracle.com> (supporter:SECURITY SUBSYSTEM) >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>> If not, then I think this can be shown as a prime example why the problem >>>>>> of "non-substituability" of many maintainers is actually real. >>>>> Once several of us became aware that James was stepping away for a few >>>>> weeks >>>>> (I should mention this was not a planned absence and took most of us by >>>>> surprise) we had a brief discussion off-list and several of us did offer >>>>> to >>>>> "step-up"; Serge had already created a repo and since he had pushed >>>>> patches >>>>> while James was away in the past it seemed a reasonable approach this >>>>> time >>>>> around. >>>> That's great, as the communication around this has not been very much >>>> (an non-existant on the subsystem mailing list) I was not aware of it. >>>> >>>> If Serge wants to do this, and as he has been the stand-in for James in >>>> the past, I have _no_ objection to this at all. >>>> >>>> Serge, feel free to resend your patches to Linus if he doesn't pick them >>>> up in a few days, with the information that you are doing this in >>>> James's absence for a while. >>> Will do (and wil cc: lsm). >>> >>>> So, that was easy, I don't have to do this at all, great. >>>> >>>> greg k-h >> How can I verify that the pull James accepted from me is >> moving forward somehow? Or, if it isn't, where does it go now? > You can see it at > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security.git/log/security/smack?h=serge-next-1 > As Greg suggested if Linus doesn't pull it in a few days I will resend > the pull request. > Looks great. Thanks.
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