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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: Release of 2.4.21
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:34:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320203407.GF8256@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874r5xyeky.fsf@sdbk.de>

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:21:01PM +0100, Sebastian D.B. Krause wrote:
> On 3487 September 1993, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> > how about releasing 2.4.21 with the ptrace()-fix applied immediately
> > like it has been done with 2.2.25?
> >
> > I think it's a serious bug and therefore it's time for a security-update.
> 
> I think the best way is to release a 2.4.21 kernel with only the
> most important fixes (e.g. ptrace, ext3) and no new features. All
> new featues which need more testing and are now in 2.4.21-pre could
> then go to 2.4.22-pre for more testing (as Alan did with

Something vaguely like this has been suggested, which I think is a good
idea:

For critical fixes, release a 2.4.20.1, 2.4.20.2, etc.  Don't disrupt
the 2.4.21-pre cycle, that would be less productive than just patching
2.4.20 and rolling a separate release off of that.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-20 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-20 19:56 Release of 2.4.21 Adrian Knoth
2003-03-20 20:21 ` Sebastian D.B. Krause
2003-03-20 20:34   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-03-20 20:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-20 20:53       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-20 21:05         ` David Lang
2003-03-21  1:55       ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-21  0:13         ` John Bradford
2003-03-21  1:30           ` Samuel Flory
2003-03-21  9:33             ` John Bradford
2003-03-21  8:40           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-21  9:23             ` John Bradford
2003-03-21 21:53               ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-22  8:27                 ` John Bradford
2003-03-22 14:54                   ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-21  1:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-21  0:04   ` David Lang
     [not found] <20030320200019$6ddc@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030320203015$4839@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-20 20:43   ` Florian Weimer
2003-03-20 21:03     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-20 21:33       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-20 22:08       ` Sebastian D.B. Krause
2003-03-21 11:06         ` Oliver Feiler
2003-03-20 22:18       ` Arador
2003-03-21  1:20       ` Chris Wright
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-20 21:17 Dow, Benjamin
2003-03-21  0:57 ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <20030320205011$1378@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030320205011$0acb@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <20030320205011$2c88@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <20030320211011$5967@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-20 21:48       ` Florian Weimer

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