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Message-ID: <20120521142643.GA28118@burratino> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:27:00 -0500 From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com> To: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, lwn@....net Subject: Re: Linux 3.2.18 Hi Richard, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote: >> All users of the 3.2 kernel series should upgrade. > > Should or must? Every stable update probably includes some fixes that are security-relevant for someone. That said, no one on this list has volunteered to do the nontrivial work of categorizing them (and that is not the purpose of this list anyway). You're more likely to find useful information from your distributor or from sources such as the national vulnerability database. Amazingly enough, the difference between "should" and "must" is not a secret message but just a difference in diction between Ben and Greg. "All users should upgrade" would generally mean that it is prudent for all users to upgrade, rather than some particular subset of them (e.g., users who have been experiencing build failures). Kind regards, Jonathan -- 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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