Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:32:30 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-as1 / 2.4 security-only patchset?
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:10:11PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:37:28AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm announcing a new kernel tree; -as.  The goal of this tree is to form
> > a stable base for vendors/distributors to use for their kernels.  In
> > order to do this, I intend to include only security fixes and obvious
> > bugfixes, from various sources.  I do not intend to include driver
> > updates, large subsystem fixes, cleanups, and so on.  Basically, this is
> > what I'd want 2.6.10.1 to contain.
> > 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This is good!
> 
> Is anybody doing the same for 2.4 kernel series? Only security-fixes for vanilla
> 2.4 kernels.. that would be nice too. 

Nope, nobody has done that for v2.4 kernels. 

Security fixes are included in v2.4-pre which is later shipped as v2.4.x final.

If someone is willing to maintain a list of the upcomming security updates I'm more than
happy to cooperate.


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