Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262740AbVCDAKL (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:10:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262732AbVCDAJG (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:09:06 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50135 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262734AbVCCXxq (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:53:46 -0500 Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering From: Alan Cox To: Greg KH Cc: Chris Friesen , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050303165940.GA11144@kroah.com> References: <42268749.4010504@pobox.com> <20050302200214.3e4f0015.davem@davemloft.net> <42268F93.6060504@pobox.com> <4226969E.5020101@pobox.com> <20050302205826.523b9144.davem@davemloft.net> <4226C235.1070609@pobox.com> <20050303080459.GA29235@kroah.com> <4226CA7E.4090905@pobox.com> <42274171.3030702@nortel.com> <20050303165940.GA11144@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1109893901.21780.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:51:42 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1223 Lines: 30 On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 16:59, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:55:13AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > >I'll tell you what the problem is: I don't think you'll find anybody to do > > >the parallell "only trivial patches" tree. > > > > Isn't this what -ac and -as effectively already are? > > Based on the patches in those trees, no :) I've not found a much smaller set that isn't rootable, trivially DoSable with published tools or leaves users with non-working hardware that got pulled by Linus having a random pissy fit about pwc etc. -ac is essentially base security fixes + working IDE locking + pwc + fixes for the bugs everyone hit that needed fixing urgently. I consider working locking on my storage essential because I like my data to still be there. -as is similar although it makes different choices about what matters. Given 3 or 4 people it ought to be possible to make a much much tighter patch set for this purpose. - 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/