Re: stable-security kernel updates

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

On 04/21/2016 08:56 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:50:34PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Updates for stable-security kernels have been released:
>>
>> 	- v3.12.58-security
>> 	- v3.14.67-security
>> 	- v3.18.31-security
>> 	- v4.1.22-security
>> 	- v4.4.8-security
>> 	- v4.5.2-security
> 
> Sasha, regardless the rest of the discussion in this thread, I find
> myself confused by the naming above. For me, 3.12.58-something means
> "something" on top of 3.12.58. Many (most? all?) forks work like this,
> but here it seems that instead it's 3.12 + your selection of fixes
> from kernels up to 3.12.58. I guess it would be much less confusing to
> call it something like 3.12.0-security58 or something like this (or
> maybe simply 3.12.0.58). Some people might be tempted to upgrade from
> 3.12.40 to 3.12.58-security and will possibly discover some breakage
> due to bugs that were fixed between 3.12 and 3.12.40 and which are not
> fixed in 3.12.58-security.

That makes sense. I'll change that.


Thanks,
Sasha