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Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:01:18 +0100
From:   Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v36 00/13] /dev/random - a new approach
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On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:44:35PM +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> 
> Ted, if you don't have the time any more to take care of /dev/random,
> it's not a shame to hand over maintainership, especially given your
> long history of Linux contributions.
> 
> Please do seriously consider to hand it over to someone new. This would
> be a good opportunity.

I can see you are quite busy working on ext4, and there is a number of
patches for drivers/char/random.c awaiting review. Wouldn't it be good
to pass it on to someone more enthusiastic?

At least some sort of reply would be appreciated.
Or are you already pondering the request ;-) ?

	Torsten