Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:15:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:15:46 -0500 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:6630 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:15:44 -0500 Subject: re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 From: Alan Cox To: Tomas Szepe Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030317182040.GA2145@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <200303171604.h2HG4Zc30291@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1047923841.1600.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20030317182040.GA2145@louise.pinerecords.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1047929671.24510.15.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-4) Date: 17 Mar 2003 19:34:32 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 17 On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 18:20, Tomas Szepe wrote: > Is this critical enough for 2.4.21 to go out? Or can it wait like > some other fairly serious stuff such as the ext3 fixes? What about > the current state of IDE? > > Would it make sense to repackage 2.4.20 into something like 2.4.20-p1 > or 2.4.20.1 with only the critical stuff applied? If you build your own kernels apply the patch, if you use vendor kernels then you can expect vendor kernel updates to appear or have already appeared - 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/