Re: [security] Big problem on 2.0.x? (fwd)

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:32:09 +0100 (MET)

Alan Cox wrote:
> > But there are lot of people (mainly companies) that either won't update
> > until they have finished evaluating v2.2.xx (somewhere around when we
> > release v2.4.5 and v2.2.25 or so...), and others that have custom-made
> > drivers that haven't been forward ported to v2.2.xx yet.
>
> Yep. Minimise changes though.

Example: I maintain a system that will be on 2.0.x until 2009. It uses
5 custom kernel-drivers.

(It's getting an upgrade from 2.0.20 to 2.0.37 in the first quarter of
2000!)

Roger. 

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