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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Tiago Assumpcao <tiago@assumpcao.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	pageexec@freemail.hu, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:13:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080716031319.GA7558@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487D4A7B.8090403@assumpcao.org>

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:10:19PM -0300, Tiago Assumpcao wrote:
>
> All I ask for is to receive the "There are updates available." message as 
> soon as one security problem is reported, understood and treated by your 
> development part. And that is, the sooner possible, if you please.

Do we not already do this today?  I know I do this as soon as possible
for any reported problem for the -stable tree, as soon as the fix is in
Linus's tree.

See the 2.6.25.11 release for an example of this.

> Plus, if one bothers, to be able to know the exact location of this bug and 
> its characteristics.

That's the extra work that you are saying we also need to do.  Linus and
others have already detailed why we don't do that.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03  3:58 Linux 2.6.25.10 Greg KH
2008-07-03  3:58 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 17:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-03 17:29   ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 18:57     ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 19:31       ` pageexec
2008-07-14 12:04         ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-07-15  2:14           ` pageexec
2008-07-15  2:27             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 15:31               ` pageexec
2008-07-15 16:07                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 16:13                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 21:08                     ` Aidan Thornton
2008-07-15 19:03                   ` pageexec
2008-07-15 19:16                     ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]                       ` <487D20EC.26203.1BD1E5C5@pageexec.freemail.hu>
2008-07-15 20:18                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 20:23                           ` pageexec
2008-07-15 20:42                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 21:18                               ` pageexec
2008-07-15 21:26                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 22:08                                   ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:28                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  0:00                                       ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  0:16                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  0:38                                           ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  0:51                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  1:10                                               ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  1:41                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  2:24                                                   ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  3:11                                                     ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16  9:49                                                   ` pageexec
2008-07-16 10:08                                                     ` David Miller
2008-07-16 10:23                                                       ` pageexec
2008-07-16 10:31                                                         ` David Miller
2008-07-16 10:51                                                           ` pageexec
2008-07-16 11:04                                                             ` David Miller
2008-07-16 11:52                                                               ` pageexec
2008-07-16  3:13                                                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-07-16  9:01                                                   ` pageexec
2008-07-16  9:35                                                     ` Gabor Gombas
2008-07-16 10:04                                                       ` pageexec
2008-07-16 14:43                                                     ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 15:43                                                       ` pageexec
2008-07-16 16:29                                                         ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 17:25                                                           ` pageexec
2008-07-16 18:08                                                             ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 19:09                                                               ` pageexec
2008-07-17  3:43                                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2008-07-16  1:08                                         ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16  1:30                                           ` pageexec
2008-07-16  1:53                                           ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  2:02                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  2:36                                               ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  4:07                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  4:16                                                   ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  3:27                                             ` Casey Schaufler
2008-07-16  4:13                                               ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  4:21                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  5:02                                                   ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16  5:13                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  5:26                                                 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-07-16  9:33                                               ` pageexec
2008-07-16 13:21                                                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 15:16                                                   ` pageexec
2008-07-16  0:04                                       ` pageexec
2008-07-16  0:24                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  0:56                                           ` pageexec
2008-07-16  1:08                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  1:23                                               ` pageexec
2008-07-17  7:19                                 ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-17  7:59                                   ` pageexec
2008-07-17  4:21                       ` Phil Pell
2008-07-15 18:33                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-15 20:28                   ` pageexec
2008-07-15 22:39                     ` Greg KH
2008-07-15 22:47                       ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:08                         ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-15 23:21                           ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:26                             ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:26                             ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-15 23:22                         ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:35                           ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:09                       ` pageexec
2008-07-15 20:15               ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-20  1:13                 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-07-15 23:34               ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-19  0:47           ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19  1:01             ` david
2008-07-19  1:51               ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19  5:41                 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-07-05  7:54     ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-08  4:12       ` Greg KH

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