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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Gregory Boyce <gboyce@badbelly.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel releases for security updates
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:36:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105629033.4664.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501121340560.20156@buddha.badbelly.com>

On Mer, 2005-01-12 at 19:45, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> be very interested in being able to run a kernel for extended lengths of 
> time, but most of the discussion on point releases has been about getting 
> a 2.6.X.1 while 2.6.X+1 is still in it's pre stages.  What about the 
> people running 2.6.X-1?  Can they expect to get a point release for 
> security updates?

For -ac I'll support just the current release unless there are real
stability problems or a hole occurs just as Linus puts out a new release
and there isn't enough test data to see what needs fixing in it in which
case I'll fix both.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-13 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-12 19:45 Gregory Boyce
2005-01-13 15:36 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-01-14  8:01 ` Frank Steiner
2005-01-15  0:32   ` Alan Cox

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