Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:46:21 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:48:06PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * 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.
If those DoS-related problems are only related to local user DoS's, yes, that is understandable. If you have questions about this, ask the vendor, they usually have a good reason for not including those fixes.
> 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.
Yes, the lack of community support is one thing you do give up with them.
thanks,
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