Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:31:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:31:04 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:6413 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:31:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3E82107F.1060204@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:41:35 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Pavel Machek , J?rn Engel , James Bourne , lkml Subject: Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 References: <3E7E4C63.908@gmx.de> <20030324003946.GA11081@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <3E7E736D.4020200@zytor.com> <20030324144219.GC29637@suse.de> <20030327074727.GA3021@zaurus.ucw.cz> <20030326203042.GA31359@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20030326203042.GA31359@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 33 Dave Jones wrote: > 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. > Basically what we're talking about now is someone to maintain an "errata tree" -- someone to maintain sub-point releases (2.4.25.1, .2, etc.) and to decide what those are. The other option would be to have it called something like 2.4.25-ep36-ep42-ep96 if errata patches 36, 42 and 96 were applied. I think sub-point releases are better, since it at least cuts down the number of possible combinations. -hpa - 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/