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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2019-11683
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 12:43:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b29aea5d-930e-778a-1627-1bfd85cbe849@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65007ac9-97f2-425e-66f4-3b552deb20ac@thelounge.net>



On 5/4/19 12:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 04.05.19 um 18:32 schrieb Eric Dumazet:
>> On 5/4/19 12:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>
>>> ok, so the answer is no
>>>
>>> what's the point then release every 2 days a new "stable" kernel?
>>> even distributions like Fedora are not able to cope with that
>>
>> That is a question for distros, not for netdev@ ?
> 
> maybe, but the point is that we go in a direction where you have every 2
> or 3 days a "stable" update up to days where at 9:00 AM a "stable" point
> release appears at kernel.org and one hour later the next one from Linus
> himself to fix a regression in the release an hour ago
> 
> release-realy-release-often is fine, but that smells like rush and
> nobody downstream be it a sysadmin or a distribution can cope with that
> when you are in a testing stage a while start deploy there are 2 new
> releases with a long changelog
> 
> just because you never know if what you intended to deploy now better
> should be skipped or joust go ahead because the next one a few days
> later brings a regression and which ones are the regressions adn which
> ones are the fixes which for me personally now leads to just randomly
> update every few weaks
> 

In any case, this discussion has nothing to do with netdev@

Are you suggesting that we should not fix bugs at given period of times,
just because a 'release of some stable kernel' happened one day before ?

How you do your updates does not really concern us, sorry !

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-04 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-04 15:49 CVE-2019-11683 Reindl Harald
2019-05-04 16:06 ` CVE-2019-11683 Eric Dumazet
2019-05-04 16:13   ` CVE-2019-11683 Reindl Harald
2019-05-04 16:32     ` CVE-2019-11683 Eric Dumazet
2019-05-04 16:39       ` CVE-2019-11683 Reindl Harald
2019-05-04 16:42         ` CVE-2019-11683 Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-04 16:43         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2019-05-04 16:47           ` CVE-2019-11683 Reindl Harald

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