Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>> I can pretty much promise you that one area likely to get LOTS of
>> attention in this kernel series IS security updates, at least if they
>> are kernel based security issues. That a major reason, if not the #1
>> reason, that this series of kernels exists.
>
> And I think that's excellent; I wasn't even aware of them until today.
>

I understand you weren't aware so I'm just trying to gently help you
and others understand why this series exists.

If you read through the requirements for submitting patches to the
long term stable series one point is that an identical/similar patch
must exist in the development tree. For security issues those are
addressed pretty quickly, and as long as the code works in the earlier
code it's conceptually pretty easy for someone to get it included in
the long term series. Of course, I'm not a developer so I don't know
what is _really_ required, but conceptually it's doable.

Cheers,
Mark