From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754580AbYGPAwa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:52:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754469AbYGPAwE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:52:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33391 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754156AbYGPAwC (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:52:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:51:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Tiago Assumpcao cc: pageexec@freemail.hu, Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10 In-Reply-To: <487D4301.5080609@assumpcao.org> Message-ID: References: <20080703185727.GA12617@suse.de>, <487D3056.1183.1C0E1C47@pageexec.freemail.hu>, <487D3C17.31467.1C3C0441@pageexec.freemail.hu> <487D4301.5080609@assumpcao.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tiago Assumpcao wrote: > > You weren't involved? Hold on, aren't you the developers, thence, those who > commit mistakes, a.k.a the bug inducing point? Umm. And if the whole discussion it was hidden from us on some private vendor list, why should we then help track their hidden state? That's what you claimed we should do, wasn't it? > Personally, I, too, have a major disgust for most crap seen in the so called > info-sec world. I hand you my agreement on this one. > Except, it changes in nothing your responsibilities. My responsibility is to do a good job. And not pander to the people who want to turn security into a media circus. Which is exactly what I'm doing. No media circus. Linus