Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:19:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:19:59 -0500 Received: from deviant.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.238]:47779 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:19:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:30:48 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Pavel Machek Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , J?rn Engel , James Bourne , lkml Subject: Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 Message-ID: <20030326203042.GA31359@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Pavel Machek , "H. Peter Anvin" , J?rn Engel , James Bourne , lkml References: <3E7E4C63.908@gmx.de> <20030324003946.GA11081@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <3E7E736D.4020200@zytor.com> <20030324144219.GC29637@suse.de> <20030327074727.GA3021@zaurus.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030327074727.GA3021@zaurus.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 20 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:47:27AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > and have it wget patches from k.o, verify signatures and auto-apply them, > > which removes the "admin didnt even know there were patches > > that needed to be applied" possibility. > > That looks like ugly can of worms to me. > "what kernel do you have?" > "2.4.25 and it did two downloads; I was > compiling it on the friday night" So make one of the patches change extra-version to -errataN or the like. Dave - 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/