Hans de Goede (Score 5, Informative)

First of all, just to be clear I'm speaking on behalf of myself here, IOW I am not speaking for my employer.

I must say that I'm not happy to see my name prominently tied to SDSi as is done in this article and in various other articles on the web, suggesting that I somehow endorse SDSi.

The Linux kernel code for this basically builds a communication path allowing a program running in userspace to talk to a new SDSi part of the Intel "Vendor Specific Extended Capabilities" (VSEC) PCI device nothing more and nothing less.

As the Linux kernel subsystem-maintainer for x86 platform drivers reviewing the driver for this new VSEC function falls up on me. This does not mean that I endorse this feature!

This simply means that if there are no technical reasons to not merge it that I will merge it, which is just part of the standard hardware enablement work done all over the kernel.

This really is no different from the kernel also having support for things like HDCP, which does not mean that the folks working on that endorse Digital Rights Management.