Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add linux-security-module mailing list to TPM drivers

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Thu Feb 21 19, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>
> > > being cc'd to linux-security-module? Looking back at
> > > recent patches, it looked like it was a general request.
> > > If it is, I'll be more likely to remember if get_maintainers.pl
> > > brings it up. :)
> >
> > I'm all open here. Not sure which practices apply to IMA. I kind of tend
> > to dilate to question does it make sense to CC to LSM for two reasons:
> >
> > 1. I think the original reason was that tpmdd mailing list was small.
> > Now with the new linux-integrity mailing list up and running there is
> > more eyes looking at the code. And more importantly the people are
> > subscribed who use TPM for something, like IMA developers.
> > 2. I don't remember ever reading within the time that I've been
> > maintaining even a single comment from anyone that works with LSM's. The
> > value of CC'ing there is not very significant, which means that most of
> > the time the TPM traffic is just noise on that list.
>
> Sounds about right, there used to be more security folk on LSM and not as
> many on the TPM list, but the new integrity list works well for TPM now.
>
>
> --
> James Morris
> <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>

Okay. Ignore this patch then.