Re: -mm merge plans

Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-25T00:51:22Z

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>>
>> > This is Oleg's romp through the core kernel. There's a ton of material
>> > here. I'll probably send it all to Linus and ask him to review it. (aka
>> > blame-shifting).
>>
>> A couple of those are mine... :)
>>
>> > Eric's romp through /proc. Scary, not sure yet.
>>
>> And a couple of these were Oleg's :)
>
> You're just trying to trick me into thinking that you're different guys.

>> Anything that can be done to make these less scary?
>
> Nothing clever that I can think of, no. It's just a whole lot of code in
> areas which are tricky and in which few people work and in which reviewing
> resources are slight.

Ok. Thanks. At least I now know why it is scary.

> We'll have a couple of months to shake things out. Any lingering problems
> will be small. As long as the small-lingering-problems aren't security
> holes then OK, that's liveable with.

Eric