Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 05 2014 - 14:48:51 EST


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

> Confused...

Me as well...

greg k-h
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