From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267189AbUGWGbv (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 02:31:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267164AbUGWGbv (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 02:31:51 -0400 Received: from herkules.viasys.com ([194.100.28.129]:54216 "HELO mail.viasys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267189AbUGWGbe (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 02:31:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:31:31 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: Tim Wright Cc: Adrian Bunk , Paul Jackson , akpm@osdl.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) Message-ID: <20040723063131.GJ16073@viasys.com> Reply-To: vherva@viasys.com References: <40FEEEBC.7080104@quark.didntduck.org> <20040721231123.13423.qmail@lwn.net> <20040721235228.GZ14733@fs.tum.de> <20040722025539.5d35c4cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040722193337.GE19329@fs.tum.de> <20040722152839.019a0ca0.pj@sgi.com> <20040722232540.GH19329@fs.tum.de> <1090549329.6113.21.camel@kryten.internal.splhi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1090549329.6113.21.camel@kryten.internal.splhi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux herkules.viasys.com 2.4.25-rc2+mremap-unmap Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:22:10PM -0700, you [Tim Wright] wrote: > > > > How do such end users get security updates? > > From the middleman. That's no different to users of any distros today. > The distros apply security fixes and make updated kernels available on a > regular basis. One idea might be to fork off "stable" 2.6.x.y (2.6.15.1 for example) branches every now and them. Analogous to vendor kernels, but maintained by someone@kernel.org. Compared to the 2.6.x.0 in question, these would only get security fixes and important bug fixes. The maintainer would need to pick a suitable (stable) 2.6.x.0 as basis every once in an appropriate while. I don't know if that's feasible. Just an idea. Anyway, as (one kind of) end user, I do welcome the new development model. I'll get the newest features in manageable manner, and if I don't fancy that I can resort to vendor (Fedora) kernels. -- v -- v@iki.fi