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I will be honest, I have read this post three times times now and I still don't know what the central thesis is. Initially when I read the post the HN submissio
by dfc 9y ago
I will be honest, I have read this post three times times now and I still don't know what the central thesis is. Initially when I read the post the HN submission was titled something along the lines of "Why the public grsec patches stopped". It's pretty clear that CII is the who, but I have no idea what the author thinks CII did or why it resulted in the end of the public availability of the beta grsec patches.
- tgragnato 9y agoI had to read https://lwn.net/Articles/721122/ https://lwn.net/Articles/721122/ to understand their point. After that, I read the whole post as a - the kernel developers are refusing to merge our patches for technically wrong reasons - the only reason for KSPP to exist is to upstream "incomplete/bogus/weakened" implementations of our solutions - no one is contributing
- bluejekyll 9y agoA little blurb at the top saying something like: "inspiration for this post came from...", would probably be helpful.
- tyingq 9y agoMakes you wonder if that's the core issue here. If you can't communicate well, you would likely end up with issues convincing the kernel devs to take your patches, and a harder time attracting contributors.
- ReligiousFlames 9y agoI couldn't make heads-or-tails of it, and stopped reading.