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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:44:21 +0200
From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
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Subject: Re: Let's make a small change to the process
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:36:44 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Correct.
But as I user I tend to look at kernel.org and download "The latest
stable version of the Linux kernel is".

If the goal of -ac is to only include those fixes, why can't we rename
it in something more "intuitive" for the final users ?
Do you see what I mean ?


-- 
Paolo
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