Re: Debian or vanilla kernel - best of both worlds possible?
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:40:05PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> You are aware that the upstream maintainers announced a change in
> their release management on kernel summit?
I am part of the upstream maintainers, did attend kernel summit and
didn't see a big annoucement, just an discussion of existing and
on-going practice.
> Yeah, but some people (including me) might not be able to judge the
> impact of a patch from these rather terse comments. For example, is
> Chris Wright's patch close a local root privilege escalation
> possibility, or does it only fix a "does not build" on mipsel? The
> comments are way too terse for somebody not following lkml, bugtraq
> and other discussion media be able to judge whether the patch is
> locally useful or not.
We can add a [sec] tag to security fixes for future patches.
Reply to: