linux-kernel - Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

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Message-ID: <20140605185513.GA15591@mail.hallyn.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:55:13 +0200
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

Quoting Greg KH (gregkh@...uxfoundation.org):
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:38:25PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > James has had to step back from doing kernel work for a few weeks, so
> > > I've offered to step up and handle the security patches to get shuttled
> > > to Linus for merging for a while.
> > >
> > > I'll take his git tree on kernel.org and push those to Linus for
> > > 3.16-rc1, as those look like they have had proper testing in linux-next.
> > >
> > > But there only seems to be 14 patches in there.  Are there pending
> > > patches that people have been sending and need to get in besides those?
> > 
> > Serge seems to have already done this?
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/350
> 
> Ah, that's good, but wasn't sent to the linux-security-module list where
> I would have noticed it :(
> 
> The patches also don't seem to have ended up in Linus's tree either
> yet...
> 
> Serge, are you going to be doing this in replacement of James for a
> while?

I don't mind, but I definately don't mind if you do.  In the past with
planned vacations James has asked me to babysit the tree, so I just
wanted to make sure it didn't get neglected.  But he did not ask me,
I'm just an interloper.

>   What made you push these to Linus and not tell the security
> list?

Abject failure on my part, sorry.

> > Confused...
> 
> Me as well...
> 
> greg k-h
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