Re: Minutes of the Debian linux-2.6 Group Meeting

[Kees Cook <kees@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:05:55PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:23:39AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Why? These patches are well maintained, and touch areas of the kernel that
> > do not change much (making them very easy to merge). Why leave non-PAE
> > x86 users out in the code when so many other distros use some form of
> > this patchset? I've worked to make sure they only touch CONFIG_X86_32,
> > so they're extremely minimal.
> [...]
> 
> Then you should convince upstream that these are good and unintrusive.

I intend to, but I'm certainly not the only one who can attempt it. I was
hoping to get more people looking at and using the code as a first step.

-Kees

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Kees Cook                                            @debian.org