Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:48:06 +0100 |
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* Greg KH:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:29:54PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: >> >> Why can't this be done by distributors/vendors? > > It already is done by these people, look at the "enterprise" Linux > distributions and their 5 years of maintance (or whatever the number > is.) > > If people/customers want stability, they already have this option.
It seems that vendor kernels lack most DoS-related fixes. I'm only aware of a single vendor which tracks them to the point that CVE names are assigned.
Vendor kernels are not a panacea, either. With some of the basic support contracts (in the four-figure range per year and CPU), the vendor won't look extensively at random kernel crashes which could (in theory) be attributed to faulty hardware, *and* you don't get community support for these heavily patched kernel collages. - 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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