[PATCHv8 00/12] nvme: In-band authentication support

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Tue Dec 21 12:55:11 PST 2021


>>>>> Question is how to continue from here; I can easily rebase my patchset
>>>>> and send it relative to Nicolais patches. But then we'll be bound to
>>>>> the acceptance of those patches, so I'm not quite sure if that's the
>>>>> best way to proceed.
>>>>
>>>> Don't know if we have a choice here... What is the alternative you are
>>>> proposing?
>>>
>>> That's the thing, I don't really have a good alternative, either.
>>> It's just that I have so no idea about the crypto subsystem, and
>>> consequently wouldn't know how long we need to wait...
>>>
>>> But yeah, Nicolais patchset is far superior to my attempts, so I'd be
>>> happy to ditch my preliminary attempts there.
>>
>> Can we get a sense from the crypto folks to the state of Nicolais
>> patchset?
> 
> According to Nicolai things look good, rules seem to be that it'll be
> accepted if it has positive reviews (which it has) and no-one objected
> (which no-one did).
> Other than that one would have to ask the maintainer.
> Herbert?

Any updates on this?



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