To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:50:29 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20060324155332.4639a9c2.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>> 
>> >   This is Oleg's romp through the core kernel.  There's a ton of material
>> >   here.  I'll probably send it all to Linus and ask him to review it.  (aka
>> >   blame-shifting).
>> 
>> A couple of those are mine... :)
>> 
>> >   Eric's romp through /proc.  Scary, not sure yet.
>> 
>> And a couple of these were Oleg's :)
>
> You're just trying to trick me into thinking that you're different guys.

>> Anything that can be done to make these less scary?
>
> Nothing clever that I can think of, no.  It's just a whole lot of code in
> areas which are tricky and in which few people work and in which reviewing
> resources are slight.

Ok.  Thanks.  At least I now know why it is scary.

> We'll have a couple of months to shake things out.  Any lingering problems
> will be small.  As long as the small-lingering-problems aren't security
> holes then OK, that's liveable with.

Eric
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