Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Quinlan <> | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2000 02:43:13 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System |
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Alexander Viro writes:
> Sigh... You know, some stuff is security-sensitive. Dunno about > other folks, but in such situations I prefer to send the patches OOB > to relevant maintainers. And they often go through several rewrites > before they go into the tree. Having descriptions of _all_ pending > patches in publicly accessible place may become an interesting > problem.
We could add a "security" or "private" flag that would do the right thing. I haven't asked Linus about how he wants security-sensitive stuff handled (OOB or with the kernel-patch system but not public).
In terms of rewrites, that's why there is an "obsoletes" tag.
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