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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:33:04 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>, stable@...nel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 00/50] -stable review On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:16:11PM -0500, Michael Krufky wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:24:18PM -0500, Michael Krufky wrote: > >> Chris Wright wrote: > >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.2 release. > >>> There are 50 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > >>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > >>> let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and > >>> wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it. > >>> > >>> These patches are sent out with a number of different people on the > >>> Cc: line. If you wish to be a reviewer, please email stable@...nel.org > >>> to add your name to the list. If you want to be off the reviewer list, > >>> also email us. > >>> > >>> Responses should be made by Mon Jan 8 02:30 UTC. > >>> Anything received after that time might be too late. > >> At which point was 2.6.18.y dropped? I thought we were always going to keep > >> the last two stable kernels up-to-date. Have I been wasting my time fwd'ing > >> 2.6.18.y patches? > > > > It was dropped a while ago, sorry. > > > > I'll go through the archives and see if there's enough to do a .18 > > release (and the patches are serious enough to warrent it.) > > Actually, I have a few more -stable patches for both 2.6.18.y and 2.6.19.y, if > you don't mind holding off a day or two (wont have time to prepare these until > tomorrow evening)... One of them is a security fix, that allows a non-root user > to hang the kernel given the correct circumstances. Ok, that's serious enough :) I'll wait for your patches. > Maybe you guys can make some sort of announcement before the -stable kernel is > closed. I know that now that 2.6.20 is released, implicitly 2.6.18.y is > closed... but it's been a long while since the last 2.6.18.y release, so I > wasn't sure if patches were still being accepted. I thought we did at the time we did the last release, but I'll try to remember to highlight it a more prominently next time. 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/
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