Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759455AbYGPKJQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:09:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755233AbYGPKI7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:08:59 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40086 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753040AbYGPKI6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:08:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080716.030857.261411379.davem@davemloft.net> To: pageexec@freemail.hu Cc: tiago@assumpcao.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, greg@kroah.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <487DE059.15123.1EBDA558@pageexec.freemail.hu> References: <487D4A7B.8090403@assumpcao.org> <487DE059.15123.1EBDA558@pageexec.freemail.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 758 Lines: 20 From: pageexec@freemail.hu Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:49:45 +0200 > why? what makes you think that a bug fixed in 2.6.26 is not relevant to > 2.6.20? do you or anyone else personally verify that? color me impressed > if you do that on every single fix you commit. Many people who do kernel development do exactly this for the vendor they work for. The SCTP socket option overflow fix got into various dist releases not by chance and not because of some utterly pointless "security" tag in the commit message. -- 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/