Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261441AbUJZUjT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:39:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261430AbUJZUiE (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:38:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60855 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261464AbUJZUhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:37:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:36:44 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Paolo Ciarrocchi Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , "Randy.Dunlap" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel Subject: Re: Let's make a small change to the process Message-ID: <20041026203644.GD2307@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , "Randy.Dunlap" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel References: <200410260644.47307.edt@aei.ca> <00c201c4bb4c$56d1b8b0$e60a0a0a@guendalin> <4d8e3fd3041026050823d012dc@mail.gmail.com> <877jpdcnf5.fsf@barad-dur.crans.org> <4d8e3fd304102613165b2fb283@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd304102613165b2fb283@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 24 On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > The .Y patchset contains only important security fix (all stuff you > think are important) and is weekly uploaded to kernel.org > > Doing that, people: > - can stop running "personal version of vanilla kernel > - don't need to wait till next Linus' release in order to have a > security bug fixed > > We, of course, need a maintainer for it, > maybe someone from OSDL (Randy?), maybe wli (he maintained his tree > for a long time), maybe Alan (that is already applying these kind of > fixes to his tree), maybe someone else... ? 2.6-ac seems to be filling this role right now. 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/