Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

From: Russell King
Date: Fri Jan 14 2005 - 17:04:53 EST


On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:19:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (Yes, Brad Spengler has talked to me about PaX, but never sent me
> individual patches, for example. People seem to expect me to take all or
> nothing

The same is true elsewhere as well, unfortunately. I do wish people
would realise that there's a huge difference between "new feature"
patches and "small bugfix" patches.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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