Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262177AbVANWBI (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:01:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262170AbVANV7S (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:59:18 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:20996 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262164AbVANV5f (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:57:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:57:26 +0000 From: Russell King To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Alan Cox , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues Message-ID: <20050114215725.B5718@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Alan Cox , Kernel Mailing List References: <20050112205350.GM24518@redhat.com> <20050112182838.2aa7eec2.akpm@osdl.org> <20050113033542.GC1212@redhat.com> <20050113082320.GB18685@infradead.org> <1105635662.6031.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@osdl.org on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:19:16AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 19 On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:19:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (Yes, Brad Spengler has talked to me about PaX, but never sent me > individual patches, for example. People seem to expect me to take all or > nothing The same is true elsewhere as well, unfortunately. I do wish people would realise that there's a huge difference between "new feature" patches and "small bugfix" patches. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - 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/