Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 08:55:13PM +0200, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org):
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:38:25PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > James has had to step back from doing kernel work for a few weeks, so
> > > > I've offered to step up and handle the security patches to get shuttled
> > > > to Linus for merging for a while.
> > > >
> > > > I'll take his git tree on kernel.org and push those to Linus for
> > > > 3.16-rc1, as those look like they have had proper testing in linux-next.
> > > >
> > > > But there only seems to be 14 patches in there.  Are there pending
> > > > patches that people have been sending and need to get in besides those?
> > > 
> > > Serge seems to have already done this?
> > > 
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/350
> > 
> > Ah, that's good, but wasn't sent to the linux-security-module list where
> > I would have noticed it :(
> > 
> > The patches also don't seem to have ended up in Linus's tree either
> > yet...
> > 
> > Serge, are you going to be doing this in replacement of James for a
> > while?
> 
> I don't mind, but I definately don't mind if you do.  In the past with
> planned vacations James has asked me to babysit the tree, so I just
> wanted to make sure it didn't get neglected.  But he did not ask me,
> I'm just an interloper.

That's great, I wasn't aware of this.  Feel free to keep doing this and
taking over for now.  As you already have a kernel.org account, and have
done it in the past, it only makes sense for you to continue.

But next time, cc: the subsystem mailing list :)

thanks,

greg k-h