Re: Bug#605090: Updated patch
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:56:45PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> schrieb:
> >> > > As I already pointed out on the first mail, Brad Sprengler has already
> >> > > said he wasn't interested in upstreaming stuff.
> >> > What Brad wants or don't want is irrelevant here. While the patch policy
> >> > for the main kernel is rather strict, other featuresets can incorporate
> >> > more changes. However this is no free ticket to push anything into it.
> >
> > Okay. Then I set the rules:
> > * The patch must be minimal. This means:
> > - Arbitrary fixes must go to mainline.
> > - No style changes in random code.
>
> Sorry, it's not up to you to impose rules single-handedly.
this is not single handed.
We are trying to minimise experimental stuff that hasn't had
mainline exposure yet.
> There are efforts by Kees and others to mainline some of the more general
> bits of grsecurity, but that's not a reason to postpone a grsec flavour.
Beside lots of talking of that effort I fail to see such a branch
in linux-next: code speaks.
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