lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:12:39 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25.10 On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:54:22AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote: > > The release notes are there in the shortlog in the email announcement > > and full Changelog on the kernel.org site for exactly what specifically > > was fixed: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10 > > > > If you have any specific questions about any of the individual changes, > > please let us, and the developers who made those fixes know. > > Sometimes I have to backport bugfixes to older kernels. In that case > it's important to know in which kernel version the bug was introduced. > This info is included for some of the bugfix patches in the changelog, > but not for all. That's because sometimes no one digs through the code to find this out. I would recommend using 'git blame' to determine this if it is something that you need to have. But for the most part, -stable doesn't really care about older kernel versions, we have to draw the line somewhere, sorry. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists