Re: 2.6 security patches merged? was: Linux 2.4 future

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:26:01PM -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
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> > Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > during 2.4.24. New drivers will be accept during this period (for example,
> > 
> > If you're going to accept new drivers, accept XFS too (pleeeaaseee :)
> 
> If you're going to do that, then why not accept ACLs for ext2/3 at the same
> time, and...
> 
> They're already in 2.6, if you want the features, then upgrade, not stick
> with 2.4.  Just by using more than one patch, you're accepting the task of
> testing code.
> 
> That reminds me, have all of the security patches that went into 2.4 been
> forward ported to 2.6 and merged already?

Not yet. Chris Wright is looking at this.


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