linux-kernel - Re: [0/3] 2.6.27.52 stable review

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Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:12:57 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, stable-review@...nel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [0/3] 2.6.27.52 stable review

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Machine is running, but there's a lot of these in the dmesg:
>
> WARNING: at include/linux/security.h:1826 acct_stack_growth+0xe7/0xf0()

That would seem to be because of the lack of commit 05fa199d45c in
2.6.27. It got marked for stable, but probably never went so far back
as 2.6.27.

That said, I do wonder if it is worth it maintaining a 2.6.27 that the
maintainer can't even boot on his machines any more.

                   Linus
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