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SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
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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.
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