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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:01:58 +0100
From: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
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To: Gregory Boyce <gboyce@badbelly.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel releases for security updates
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Gregory Boyce wrote

> Rather than actually putting out point releases for the previously 
> released kernels, why not just create a centralized repository for the 
> security patches?  In a lot of cases security patches can be applied as is 
> to a number of different kernel revisions.  For the ones that cannot, 
> variances of the patches could be posted along with it clearly marked as 
> to which patches apply to which kernels.
> 
> Thoughts?

I guess the new -as tree is more or less achieving what you want. If
Andres gets enough support from other people, it might be possible to
maintain even more than one or two former releases...

[x] Voting for the -as tree to become an official tree on kernel.org :-)

cu,
Frank

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