From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pageexec@freemail.hu
Cc: tiago@assumpcao.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
greg@kroah.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:08:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080716.030857.261411379.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487DE059.15123.1EBDA558@pageexec.freemail.hu>
From: pageexec@freemail.hu
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:49:45 +0200
> why? what makes you think that a bug fixed in 2.6.26 is not relevant to
> 2.6.20? do you or anyone else personally verify that? color me impressed
> if you do that on every single fix you commit.
Many people who do kernel development do exactly this for the vendor
they work for.
The SCTP socket option overflow fix got into various dist releases not
by chance and not because of some utterly pointless "security" tag in
the commit message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-16 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 3:58 Greg KH
2008-07-03 3:58 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 17:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-03 17:29 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 18:57 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 19:31 ` pageexec
2008-07-14 12:04 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-07-15 2:14 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 2:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 15:31 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 21:08 ` Aidan Thornton
2008-07-15 19:03 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <487D20EC.26203.1BD1E5C5@pageexec.freemail.hu>
2008-07-15 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 20:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 21:18 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 21:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 22:08 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:00 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:38 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 0:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 1:10 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 2:24 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 3:11 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 9:49 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 10:08 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-07-16 10:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 10:31 ` David Miller
2008-07-16 10:51 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 11:04 ` David Miller
2008-07-16 11:52 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 3:13 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 9:01 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 9:35 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-07-16 10:04 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 14:43 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 15:43 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 16:29 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 17:25 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 18:08 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 19:09 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 3:43 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-07-16 1:08 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 1:30 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 1:53 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 2:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 2:36 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 4:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 4:16 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 3:27 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-07-16 4:13 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 4:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 5:02 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 5:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 5:26 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-07-16 9:33 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 13:21 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 15:16 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 0:04 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:56 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 1:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 7:19 ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-17 7:59 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 4:21 ` Phil Pell
2008-07-15 18:33 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-15 20:28 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 22:39 ` Greg KH
2008-07-15 22:47 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:08 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-15 23:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:26 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:26 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-15 23:22 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:35 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:09 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 20:15 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-20 1:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-07-15 23:34 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-19 0:47 ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19 1:01 ` david
2008-07-19 1:51 ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19 5:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-07-05 7:54 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-08 4:12 ` Greg KH
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