Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:47:26 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change |
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:30:53AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said: > > Distros properly patch things and backport "urgent OpenSSL security > > updates" to older versions of packages, so they would not run into this > > problem. > > > > Newer releases would run into this problem, but as almost all distros > > have huge, easy to run, build systems, a change like this would show up > > immediately and be fixed in a matter of hours, with the needed fixes > > being pushed upstream to the various packages as needed. > > > > So I really don't think this is much of a problem. > > > > It's interesting that openssl doesn't just check for Linux 1.x and > > assumes that Linux 9.23.12 will work just fine with what they are doing :) > > Is it really worth the effort of having any such upstream have to > quickly patch and release, when the only benefit listed (earlier in > this thread) was to inform people how old their kernel is?
If we switch to a consecutive numbering scheme, which doesn't show the "age" of the kernel, we would still have to patch such packages, so I don't see the big difference.
thanks,
greg k-h
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