Re: Kernel upgrade for 3Ware Driver issues?

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:45:53PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
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> --On April 22, 2008 11:21:25 PM +0200 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> 
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>> I guess the number of systems with amd64 and a 3ware 7xxx/8xxxx PATA
>> controllers is pretty small, otherwise this bug would have been noticed
>> earlier.  So the sky is not falling.
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>> Technically, this is not a security bug.
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> It definitely affects non-64bit systems too, contrary to 3Ware's claims. We 
> had corruption on a 32bit system, which is what prompted us to start 
> figuring it out.
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> And I agree, technically it isn't, but security is one of the few ways to 
> get updates into the distribution that are NMU.

But that doesn't make them security issues. Don't get me wrong, I'd be
all for a more fluid update process for non-security/critical issues,
but it doesn't exist at the moment. The security team controls what
goes out as a security update, and we're not going to get the security
team to release a security update for a non-security issue.

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dann frazier