Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 | Date | Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:24:16 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@mac.com> said: > On 4 Jan 2005, at 13:36, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > >> I don't pretend that kernel interfaces stay written in stone, for > >> ages. What I would like is that, at least, those interfaces were > >> stable enough, let's say for a few months for a stable kernel series, > >> so I don't have to keep bothering my propietary VMWare vendor to fix > >> the problems for me, since the > > > > How much work are you willing to do to make this happen ? ;) > > As much as needed :-) > > > It would be easy enough for you to take 2.6.9 and add only > > security fixes and critical bugfixes to it for the next 6 > > months - that would give your binary vendors a stable > > source base to work with... > > I would... if it was easy enough to find some form of a security > patches pool.
The work Rik mentioned is exactly to select only security/critical fixes, and adapt them to the kernel you are handling. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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