Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:38:03 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 |
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:30:43PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> The distros inherently have a conflict of interest getting changes merged > back into mainline ... it's time consuming to do, it provides them no real > benefit (they have to maintain their huge trees anyway), and it actively > damages the "value add" they provide.
I take a strong objection to this. I can't speak for all distros, but I know that Red Hat has a strong preference to get things merged upstream as soon as possible. I think you are absolutely wrong about the "no real benefit" part and that you totally misunderstand what value add distributions provide.
> If that's people's attitude ("you should use a vendor"), then we need a > 2.4-fixed tree to be run by somebody with an interest in providing > critical bugfixes to the community with no distro ties.
this is not about distros or vendors (yes IBM is a linux vendor too). at all. Marcelo is in a tough position; either he releases an emergency kernel with a patch applied that seems to have a few corner case issues, or he starts to rush out 2.4.21 based on the current 2.4.21-pre codebase. Given that there are other bugs in 2.4.20 that makes people say "but THIS needs to be in too", I can see that becoming a very fuzzy thing pretty quick. Apparantly Marcelo decided to go for the "get 2.4.21 out soon" approach.....
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