Re: [0/3] 2.6.27.52 stable review

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:12:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Machine is running, but there's a lot of these in the dmesg:
> >
> > WARNING: at include/linux/security.h:1826 acct_stack_growth+0xe7/0xf0()
> 
> That would seem to be because of the lack of commit 05fa199d45c in
> 2.6.27. It got marked for stable, but probably never went so far back
> as 2.6.27.

Yup, I didn't include it there.  Grant, if you add that, does the
warning go away?

> That said, I do wonder if it is worth it maintaining a 2.6.27 that the
> maintainer can't even boot on his machines any more.

Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder about it as well.  I think it's expected
lifespan is very near to the end.

thanks,

greg k-h
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