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

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:20:15 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Greg KH 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?
> 

Thanks for stepping up.

I had to take urgent leave and was unable to access email until this week.

We really should have a co-maintainer for the security subsystem -- please 
feel free to nominate someone.

There are several good candidates, including Serge, Kees and Paul Moore.


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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