Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25

Jörn Engel
2003-03-26T20:51:59Z

On Wed, 26 March 2003 12:41:35 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > >
> > > That looks like ugly can of worms to me.
> > > "what kernel do you have?"
> > > "2.4.25 and it did two downloads; I was
> > > compiling it on the friday night"

It look like a good thing to me, iff done right. iff.

> > So make one of the patches change extra-version to -errataN or the like.

And the script doing the automatic downloads should refuse to apply
any patch that doesn't change extra-version. When something like this
happens to -ac2, people download it manually and know, it is in fact
-ac3. But here...

> Basically what we're talking about now is someone to maintain an "errata
> tree" -- someone to maintain sub-point releases (2.4.25.1, .2, etc.) and
> to decide what those are.
>
> The other option would be to have it called something like
> 2.4.25-ep36-ep42-ep96 if errata patches 36, 42 and 96 were applied.
>
> I think sub-point releases are better, since it at least cuts down the
> number of possible combinations.

I agree. There should be no point in finer granularity than sub-point
releases. Even those should be kept as small as possible, completely
empty if possible.

Jörn

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