Re: Let's make a small change to the process

Dave Jones
2004-10-26T20:39:19Z

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

> The .Y patchset contains only important security fix (all stuff you
> think are important) and is weekly uploaded to kernel.org
>
> Doing that, people:
> - can stop running "personal version of vanilla kernel
> - don't need to wait till next Linus' release in order to have a
> security bug fixed
>
> We, of course, need a maintainer for it,
> maybe someone from OSDL (Randy?), maybe wli (he maintained his tree
> for a long time), maybe Alan (that is already applying these kind of
> fixes to his tree), maybe someone else... ?

2.6-ac seems to be filling this role right now.

Dave