Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262107AbVADUbJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:31:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262134AbVADU3N (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:29:13 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:55987 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262129AbVADU1U (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:27:20 -0500 Message-Id: <200501042024.j04KOH1G013921@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Felipe Alfaro Solana cc: Rik van Riel , Adrian Bunk , Willy Tarreau , Al Viro , William Lee Irwin III , William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Andries Brouwer , Horst von Brand , Maciej Soltysiak Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 In-Reply-To: Message from Felipe Alfaro Solana of "Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:59:51 BST." <85546E06-5E50-11D9-A816-000D9352858E@mac.com> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:24:16 -0300 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1514 Lines: 33 Felipe Alfaro Solana said: > On 4 Jan 2005, at 13:36, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > >> I don't pretend that kernel interfaces stay written in stone, for > >> ages. What I would like is that, at least, those interfaces were > >> stable enough, let's say for a few months for a stable kernel series, > >> so I don't have to keep bothering my propietary VMWare vendor to fix > >> the problems for me, since the > > > > How much work are you willing to do to make this happen ? ;) > > As much as needed :-) > > > It would be easy enough for you to take 2.6.9 and add only > > security fixes and critical bugfixes to it for the next 6 > > months - that would give your binary vendors a stable > > source base to work with... > > I would... if it was easy enough to find some form of a security > patches pool. The work Rik mentioned is exactly to select only security/critical fixes, and adapt them to the kernel you are handling. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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/