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krause@sdbk.de (Sebastian D.B. Krause) writes:

> 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.

You can do this on your own.  So what?

Releasing an official 2.4.21 with some fixes (and no new features) is
just a PR issue.  I've already seen people comparing the alleged IIS
bug (or this new IE hole) and the ptrace() bug...