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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Too many kernels?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 23:24:05
Message-Id: 20040709232251.GC31999@violet.grantgoodyear.org
1 # ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel -l | grep -v CVS | wc -l
2 44
3
4 Anybody know which kernels are actually being used? Which have active
5 maintainers? Given the goal of a quick response to kernel
6 vulnerabilities, it seems clear that each kernel needs a redundancy of
7 two to three people who can update handle patches when the need arises.
8 (That doesn't mean we need 3*44 kernel devs; a high degree of
9 overlapping would be fine.)
10
11 -g2boojum-
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Too many kernels? Kumba <kumba@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Too many kernels? Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>