Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751739AbWEPKLX (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 06:11:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751740AbWEPKLX (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 06:11:23 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:33705 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751735AbWEPKLW (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 06:11:22 -0400 Subject: Re: /dev/random on Linux From: Alan Cox To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda , Jonathan Day , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zvika Gutterman In-Reply-To: References: <20060515213956.31627.qmail@web31508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1147732867.26686.188.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060516025003.GC18645@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:24:04 +0100 Message-Id: <1147775045.2151.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 26 On Maw, 2006-05-16 at 04:15 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > Zvi did contact Matt Mackall, the current /dev/random maintainer, > > and was very keen on discussing the paper with him. I don't think > > he got any response. > > So he's demanding that one person spend time responding to his > paper? Relying on email to one person getting through is a bit bogus, but I don't see a single demand from anyone that someone respond to the paper. I'm very glad the work was done, it would have been nicer to have known up front but it didn't work out. Also if the maintainer doesn't respond and the paper authors didn't know where to go next that in itself needs addressing because the same may be true for others finding problems. Don't blame the messenger when it might be useful to think about whether the MAINTAINERS file could do with an extra paragraph or two... Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/