linux-kernel - Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10

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Message-ID: <20080716031319.GA7558@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:13:19 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Tiago Assumpcao <tiago@...umpcao.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	pageexec@...email.hu, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:10:19PM -0300, Tiago Assumpcao wrote:
>
> All I ask for is to receive the "There are updates available." message as 
> soon as one security problem is reported, understood and treated by your 
> development part. And that is, the sooner possible, if you please.

Do we not already do this today?  I know I do this as soon as possible
for any reported problem for the -stable tree, as soon as the fix is in
Linus's tree.

See the 2.6.25.11 release for an example of this.

> Plus, if one bothers, to be able to know the exact location of this bug and 
> its characteristics.

That's the extra work that you are saying we also need to do.  Linus and
others have already detailed why we don't do that.

thanks,

greg k-h
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